supercriticality

It was, as with Chernobyl, a ‘nuclear explosion’ in the sense that the primary cause was a supercriticality incident massive release of enrgy in a very short period of time.

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The SL-1 pressure vessel experienced a massive disruption because of the supercriticality incident caused as a direct result of the removing a single control rod from the reactor this says a lot about the shortcomings of this military research reactor.

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It was a supercriticality incident in which as I think you know because you reminded me about it during our last nuclear safety debate, an operator removed a single control rod completely from the reactor which caused the power to increase dramatically within the space of a few seconds.

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(It also suggests that perhaps the logarithmic supercriticality is not quite the right threshold here, and that some slight improvement might be possible in this regard; I believe this is being looked into right now.)

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(It also suggests that perhaps the logarithmic supercriticality is not quite the right threshold here, and that some slight improvement might be possible in this regard; I believe this is being looked into right now.)

What's new Terence Tao 2010

There are certainly parallels with Chernobyl e.g. prompt supercriticality so I can see now why you have mentioned it but i’m not sure where you want to go with the discussion though?

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