criticality

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A sign on the wall marks the "Toxic Release Assembly Point," another sign with arrows is marked the "Criticality Run."

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025

In adjacent work funded by the Nuclear Criticality and Safety Program, the Chi-Nu experimental team is currently collecting and analyzing data on plutonium-240 and uranium-233.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023

He and physicist Mohammad Ansari explored these ideas in the 2008 paper “Self-Organized Criticality in Quantum Gravity.”

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2021

With nuclear bomb testing ended, the scientists were using a device they called Godiva at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center to test nuclear pulses on a smaller and supposedly safe scale.

From Scientific American • Jun. 27, 2017