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Yes it does: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuclear_reactor https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuclear_reactor
by tyho 11y ago
Yes it does:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuclear_reactor https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuclear_reactor
- rosser 11y agoNo, it doesn't. The definition you're citing says, "Any device in which a controlled chain reaction is maintained", emphasis added. First of all, the Demon Core wasn't a "device", but a shaped lump of plutonium, which briefly — and accidentally — went super-critical. (Yes, twice. And, yes, subsequently deliberately.) A "reactor" is the entire assembly, not just the "hot" stuff. Secondly, it wasn't exactly designed for controlled criticality. EDIT: corrections.
- tyho 11y agoIt was controlled using a screw driver. What makes a device? For me 2 plutonium spheres and a screw driver rotated to adjust the gap counts.