Enrico Fermi
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What happened with Enrico Fermi on 27 September, 1944

27 September, 1944

The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, designed to breed plutonium, initially went critical but then shut down due to neutron poisoning from xenon-135. Fermi and his team later resolved the issue.
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