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No, 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 Co
by rosser 11y ago
No, 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.