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You’ll probably be able to think of a science-fiction film or TV series where one of the characters warns another “The reactor’s going to go Critical!” Panic, heroic actions and saving-the-day in the nick-of-time usually follows. There’s just one thing: a reactor going critical (‘Criticality’) isn’t a problem at all…
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Tucker, C. (2019). Criticality Is Not as Bad as It Sounds. In: How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33876-3_4
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