Sentence examples for reached criticality from inspiring English sources
When the experiment was carried out on the afternoon of December 2 , 1942 the reactor, known as Chicago Pile-1, reached criticality without incident.
Students are usually taught that the geometrical shape which needs the smallest amount of fissionable material to reach criticality is a sphere.
All three objectives are better achieved with high values of the neutron multiplication factor (k-eff) with the obvious and fundamental limitation that it cannot reach criticality under any event, particularly, in the case of a loss of coolant accident.
This reduces the amount of plutonium needed to reach criticality from 16 kg to 10 kg, which is a sphere with a diameter of about 10 cm.
(C ) Although only 1 of 9 injured cutaneous afferents exhibited repetitive spiking and MPOs, those afferents were nonetheless closer to criticality insofar as they required significantly less virtual sodium conductance than uninjured cutaneous afferents to reach criticality (*p<0.05; Mann Whitney U test).
The ill-starred Monju reached initial criticality in April 1995 but then suffered a disastrous coolant leak and fire in December 1995.
Since HANARO reached its initial criticality on the 8th of February , 1995 this facility has been improved and enhanced continuously in two ways.
The original log book is next to the control desk, open to the page from November 4, 1943 -- the date when the reactor was first "criticality reached".
We're also having to deal with three huge structural problems that built up over several decades and have reached a point of criticality at the same time.
Cartographic representation shows that none of the mean residual criticalities of those previous steps has reached the threshold of unbearable residual criticality.
Moreover, it has led to the hypothesis that brain dynamics may fit within the framework of self-organised criticality (SOC), i.e. a system that does not require external tuning of parameters to reach the critical state [4, 18, 19].
