Site A

Palos Township, IL

Site A was a research facility in the Argonne Forest, now known as Red Gate Woods, near Chicago where, during World War II, research on behalf of the Manhattan Project was carried out. Operated by the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory, it was the site of Chicago Pile-2, a reconstructed and enlarged version of the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1.

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