Assertion: nuclear reactor | /r/CapableOf | generate sustained chain reaction
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text: By November 1942 National Carbon had shipped 250 tons of AGOT graphite to the University of Chicago:200 where it became the primary source of graphite to be used in the construction of Fermi's Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor to generate a sustained chain reaction (December 2, 1942).:295 AGOT graphite was used to build the X-10 graphite reactor in Oak Ridge TN (early 1943) and the first reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington (mid 1943),:5 for the production of plutonium during and after World War II.