Character(s):
Enrico Fermi; Laura Fermi; Niels Bohr; Franklin D. Roosevelt
Synopsis:
Enrico Fermi rises from childhood and the death of his beloved brother through scientific education, the Nobel Prize, and flight from Mussolini, to build the first atomic pile.
Synopsis:
Explanation of how an atomic reactor generates electrical power, and the building of the first such plant, at Shippingport, Pennsylvania (1957).