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Criticality is what you get in a nuclear reactor and what killed Slotkin. Supercriticality requires explosives. One is a self-sustaining chain reaction, the o
by psunavy03 2y ago
Criticality is what you get in a nuclear reactor and what killed Slotkin. Supercriticality requires explosives. One is a self-sustaining chain reaction, the other is a runaway chain reaction.
- dumah 2y agoNo, super-criticality occurs in a nuclear reactor when ever the neutron population is increasing. You might be conflating that condition with prompt criticality.