criticality accident

English
A model of the Demon Core, a sphere of plutonium involved in two criticality accidents.

Noun

criticality accident (plural criticality accidents)

  1. (nuclear physics) An accidental uncontrolled self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction.
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