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SUPERCRITICALITY ACCIDENT [1 record]

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Record 1 2012-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
  • Nuclear Physics
CONT

Chernobyl was a supercriticality accident: a bad reactor design caused a supercriticality (runaway chain reaction) to occur. While it only lasted a millisecond, the power spiked to thousands of times normal rated power and destroyed the entire core, pressure vessel and building, spraying fuel and fission products for miles around.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
  • Physique nucléaire
CONT

Ces dernières années, les systèmes à source intense de neutrons produits à partir de protons accélérés et envoyés sur une cible de spallation ont vu un regain d’intérêt. On les a d’abord prônés pour des raisons de sûreté (puisque alimentés par une source, ils sont sous-critiques, ce qui réduit le risque d’accident de surcriticité) […]

Spanish

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