A criticality accident is an accidental uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction. It is sometimes referred to as a critical excursion, critical power...

process lacked practical understanding of criticality safety. "NRC Review of the Tokai-Mura Criticality Accident" (PDF). Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 2000...

106°17′54″W / 35.88167°N 106.29833°W / 35.88167; -106.29833 A criticality accident occurred on December 30, 1958, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory...

consisted of dangerous criticality testing, first with uranium in Otto Robert Frisch's experiments, and later with plutonium cores. Criticality testing involved...

In nuclear engineering, prompt criticality describes a nuclear fission event in which criticality (the threshold for an exponentially growing nuclear fission...

performing criticality tests on the same plutonium core. After these two incidents it became known as the "demon core", and all similar criticality experiments...

and potential later use in the case of another conflict. The two criticality accidents occurred at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico on August 21...

prompt critical point is the domain of nuclear weapons and some nuclear power accidents, such as the Chernobyl disaster. Criticality (status) Criticality accident...

radiation. In 2016, a criticality accident was reported at the Afrikantov OKBM Critical Test Facility in Russia. Decay heat accidents are where the heat...

There have been no known civilian nuclear accidents since the Fukushima nuclear accident. Criticality accident International Nuclear Events Scale List of...

and commissioning of a nuclear power plant. Criticality accident Critical mass Prompt criticality "Criticality" (PDF). IAEA Safety Glossary. International...

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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Nuclear criticality safety is concerned with mitigating the consequences of a nuclear criticality accident. A nuclear criticality accident occurs from...

today as Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. On July 24, 1964, a fatal criticality accident occurred at the United Nuclear Corporation's Wood River Junction...

exposure may be the result of a criticality or radiotherapy accident. There have been numerous criticality accidents dating back to atomic testing during...

disaster. 2 January 1958 – Criticality accident in SCR plant. Plant workers conducted experiments to determine the critical mass of enriched uranium in...

are design-basis accident (DBA) and maximum credible accident. Subtypes of DBEs are: design-basis criticality: "A criticality accident that is the most...

the Y-12 operator in November 2000. At 11 p.m. on June 16, 1958, a criticality accident occurred in the C-1 Wing of Building 9212 at the facility, then operating...

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admitting accident cover-up "Tokaimura Criticality Accident". World-nuclear.org. Retrieved 19 April 2012. "Tokaimura Criticality Accident Nuclear Issues...

1940s and 1950s. Graves was severely injured in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident in Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin, but recovered. Alvin Cushman...

present day, a series of accidents have occurred in which nuclear criticality has played a central role. The criticality accidents may be divided into two...

several nuclear and radiation accidents involving fatalities, including nuclear power plant accidents, nuclear submarine accidents, and radiotherapy incidents...

nuclear accidents, including the SL-1 explosion and the Chernobyl disaster. Homogeneous neutron absorbers have often been used to manage criticality accidents...

who received a fatal dose of radiation in the Wood River Junction criticality accident This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same...

with an interval of 100 to 150 years Tokaimura nuclear accident, a fatal criticality accident in Tōkai, Ibaraki on 30 September 1999 Tokai may refer to:...

succumbs after 83 days". Retrieved 24 April 2016. "The Cecil Kelley Criticality Accident: The Origin of the Los Alamos Human Tissue Analysis Program" (PDF)...

A Review of Criticality Accidents, William R. Stratton, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1967 LA-13638 A Review of Criticality Accidents (2000 Revision)...

Atomic Bomb dropped on Florence, S.C., March 11, 1958. Walker G. "Criticality Accidents". Trinity Atomic Web Site. Retrieved 2007-06-17. Air Force concludes...