RARE PIECE OF GRAPHITE FROM CHICAGO PILE-1 (CP-1) LUCITE PAPERWEIGHT For Sale
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RARE PIECE OF GRAPHITE FROM CHICAGO PILE-1 (CP-1) LUCITE PAPERWEIGHT:
$2700.00
Rare historic lucite paperweight containing a piece from Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor. The world’s first human-made self-sustaining nuclear reaction was accomplished by CP-1 on 12/2/1942.
I have owned this for 30+ years are as a former Argonne National Laboratory employee.
Excellent condition, small scratches on lucite.
Titles of Distinction
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Hero of Socialist Labor
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of USSR
- Dist. Military Pilot USSR
- Dist. Military Navigator USSR
- Dist. Test Pilot USSR
- Dist. Test Navigator USSR
- Distinguished Pilot USSR
- Dist. Navigator USSR
Orders of Distinction
- Order of Lenin
- Order of October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of Suvorov
- Order of Ushakov
- Order of Kutuzov
- Order of Nakhimov
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
- Order of Alexander Nevsky
- Order of the Patriotic War
- Order of Red Banner of Labor
- Order of Friendship
- Order of the Red Star
- Order Service to Motherland
- Order of the Badge of Honor
- Order of Honor
- Order of Personal Courage
- Order of Glory
- Order of Labor Glory
- Order of Mother Heroine
- Order of Maternal Glory