A criticality accident is an accidental uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction. It is sometimes referred to as a critical excursion, critical power... 41 KB (3,335 words) - 01:32, 29 March 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,961 words) - 22:17, 24 March 2024 |
 | process lacked practical understanding of criticality safety. "NRC Review of the Tokai-Mura Criticality Accident" (PDF). Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 2000... 38 KB (4,336 words) - 18:34, 3 April 2024 |
 | Louis Slotin (redirect from Pajarito accident) consisted of dangerous criticality testing, first with uranium in Otto Robert Frisch's experiments, and later with plutonium cores. Criticality testing involved... 38 KB (4,333 words) - 18:30, 22 April 2024 |
In nuclear engineering, prompt criticality describes a nuclear fission event in which criticality (the threshold for an exponentially growing nuclear fission... 16 KB (2,191 words) - 14:04, 20 January 2024 |
 | Harry Daghlian (category Deaths from laboratory accidents) performing criticality tests on the same plutonium core. After these two incidents it became known as the "demon core", and all similar criticality experiments... 12 KB (1,122 words) - 06:05, 4 April 2024 |
 | radiation. In 2016, a criticality accident was reported at the Afrikantov OKBM Critical Test Facility in Russia. Decay heat accidents are where the heat... 120 KB (11,796 words) - 14:18, 1 April 2024 |
 | prompt critical point is the domain of nuclear weapons and some nuclear power accidents, such as the Chernobyl disaster. Criticality (status) Criticality accident... 19 KB (2,937 words) - 19:27, 15 April 2024 |
and commissioning of a nuclear power plant. Criticality accident Critical mass Prompt criticality "Criticality" (PDF). IAEA Safety Glossary. International... 2 KB (168 words) - 13:01, 17 July 2023 |
Nuclear criticality safety is concerned with mitigating the consequences of a nuclear criticality accident. A nuclear criticality accident occurs from... 11 KB (1,485 words) - 06:41, 25 July 2023 |
| Demon core (category Nuclear accidents and incidents in the United States) 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... 27 KB (2,556 words) - 04:29, 21 April 2024 |
 | International Nuclear Event Scale (redirect from Nuclear accident scale) nuclear accidents United States military nuclear incident terminology Lists of nuclear reactors Nuclear safety and security Criticality accident List of... 32 KB (1,967 words) - 07:53, 3 April 2024 |
Look up criticality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Criticality may refer to: Critical phenomena, the collective name associated with the physics of... 1 KB (192 words) - 22:43, 28 November 2016 |
Wood River Junction, Rhode Island (category Nuclear accidents and incidents in the United States) operation today as Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. On 24 July 1964, a fatal criticality accident occurred at the United Nuclear Corporation's Wood River Junction... 9 KB (737 words) - 21:22, 20 February 2024 |
 | exposure may be the result of a criticality or radiotherapy accident. There have been numerous criticality accidents dating back to atomic testing during... 65 KB (6,782 words) - 15:40, 14 March 2024 |
fortunately, there are no known civilian nuclear accidents in this time period. Criticality accident International Nuclear Events Scale List of Chernobyl-related... 49 KB (1,804 words) - 13:43, 16 March 2024 |
 | Mayak (redirect from Mayak accident) disaster. 2 January 1958 – Criticality accident in SCR plant. Plant workers conducted experiments to determine the critical mass of enriched uranium in... 37 KB (4,295 words) - 20:51, 16 April 2024 |
 | regulatory considerations Explosives safety Nuclear and radiation accidents Criticality accident Sports injury Woodward, Gary C. (2013). The Rhetoric of Intention... 13 KB (1,186 words) - 20:10, 25 April 2024 |
Design-basis event (redirect from Design Basis Accident) are design-basis accident (DBA) and maximum credible accident. Subtypes of DBEs are: design-basis criticality: "A criticality accident that is the most... 7 KB (771 words) - 03:08, 16 November 2023 |
 | Y-12 National Security Complex (redirect from Y-12 criticality incident) superoxide was scratched by a metal tool. 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... 20 KB (2,263 words) - 02:07, 6 April 2024 |
List of Japanese nuclear incidents (redirect from 2011 Japanese nuclear accident) admitting accident cover-up "Tokaimura Criticality Accident". World-nuclear.org. Retrieved 19 April 2012. "Tokaimura Criticality Accident Nuclear Issues... 11 KB (345 words) - 12:02, 13 December 2022 |
who received a fatal dose of radiation in the Wood River Junction criticality accident This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same... 374 bytes (74 words) - 02:49, 3 October 2023 |
several nuclear and radiation accidents involving fatalities, including nuclear power plant accidents, nuclear submarine accidents, and radiotherapy incidents... 28 KB (2,072 words) - 05:01, 1 April 2024 |
 | Control rod (section Criticality accident prevention) nuclear accidents, including the SL-1 explosion and the Chernobyl disaster. Homogeneous neutron absorbers have often been used to manage criticality accidents... 20 KB (2,463 words) - 08:13, 6 April 2024 |
Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases (category Civilian nuclear power accidents) 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... 17 KB (1,980 words) - 08:38, 18 August 2023 |
 | 1940s and 1950s. Graves was severely injured in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident in Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin, but recovered. Alvin Cushman... 13 KB (1,447 words) - 23:59, 20 February 2024 |
 | succumbs after 83 days". Retrieved 24 April 2016. "The Cecil Kelley Criticality Accident: The Origin of the Los Alamos Human Tissue Analysis Program" (PDF)... 68 KB (6,621 words) - 21:39, 17 March 2024 |
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:... 2 KB (224 words) - 03:50, 5 November 2022 |
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... 85 KB (2,434 words) - 18:35, 14 April 2024 |
 | Chernobyl disaster (redirect from Chornobyl accident) physicist who died days after a fatal radiation overdose from a criticality accident. The explosion and fire threw hot particles of the nuclear fuel and... 272 KB (29,487 words) - 11:04, 27 April 2024 |