Under the orders of the fascist leader, researchers used hundreds of uranium cubes to try and build a nuclear reactor.... As neutrons bombarded the uranium-235 atoms in the cubes, the atoms would have split, releasing enormous amounts of energy.... The reactor was dismantled by Allied forces at the end of World War 2, and the 664 uranium cubes – which had been buried – were shipped to the US. Now, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory( PNNL) have reported initial results from an