The world\u2019s first nuclear reactor is currently buried in a forest preserve in Chicago. I stumbled upon it when I was in High School during a land-navigation competition where we had to find points in the forest using a compass and map. Through one of those runs my buddy and I saw this weird rock in the middle of nowhere with writing on it and eerily enough it said there was radioactive material buried underneath us.\u00a0 That made us go \u201cWHY WOULD THAT BE HERE???\u201d, it felt like a nuclear bomb should\u2019ve been stored at least hundreds of miles away from any city. After reading the description and doing some light research afterwards we found out that the park was the site of University of Chicago\u2019s nuclear reaction testing and wasn\u2019t dangerous at the depth it was buried. I\u2019m sure we couldn\u2019t have been the first or the last to have their hearts drop as soon as they stop to see the funny rock with a paragraph.\u00a0
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