• self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear criticality safety is concerned with mitigating the consequences of a nuclear criticality accident. A nuclear criticality...
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    weapons and some nuclear power accidents, such as the Chernobyl disaster. Criticality (status) Criticality accident Nuclear criticality safety Geometric and...
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  • A criticality accident is an accidental uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction. It is sometimes referred to as a critical excursion, critical power...
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    "Tokaimura Criticality Accident - World Nuclear Association". world-nuclear.org. Retrieved 27 April 2020. "Tokaimura Criticality Accident - World Nuclear Association"...
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    Angela (2003). "Critical Mass Calculations for 241Am, 242mAm and 243Am" (PDF). Challenges in the Pursuit of Global Nuclear Criticality Safety. Proceedings...
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  • Look up criticality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Criticality may refer to: Critical phenomena, the collective name associated with the physics of...
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    has been stopped. Proton–proton chain Criticality accident Nuclear criticality safety Nuclear physics Nuclear reactor physics "See this 1956 Nobel lecture...
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  • In nuclear engineering, prompt criticality describes a nuclear fission event in which criticality (the threshold for an exponentially growing nuclear fission...
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  • and commissioning of a nuclear power plant. Criticality accident Critical mass Prompt criticality "Criticality" (PDF). IAEA Safety Glossary. International...
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    States Nuclear criticality safety RELAP5-3D A reactor design and simulation tool to prevent accidents. Nuclear fuel response to reactor accidents Nuclear holocaust...
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