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Criticality accident and Gun-type fission weapon

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Difference between Criticality accident and Gun-type fission weapon

Criticality accident vs. Gun-type fission weapon

A criticality accident is an uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction. Gun-type fission weapons are fission-based nuclear weapons whose design assembles their fissile material into a supercritical mass by the use of the "gun" method: shooting one piece of sub-critical material into another.

Similarities between Criticality accident and Gun-type fission weapon

Criticality accident and Gun-type fission weapon have 9 things in common (in Unionpedia): Critical mass, Fissile material, Louis Slotin, Nuclear chain reaction, Nuclear fission, Nuclear reactor, Nuclear weapon, Nuclear weapon design, Plutonium.

Critical mass

A critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction.

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Fissile material

In nuclear engineering, fissile material is material capable of sustaining a nuclear fission chain reaction.

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Louis Slotin

Louis Alexander Slotin (1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project.

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Nuclear chain reaction

A nuclear chain reaction occurs when one single nuclear reaction causes an average of one or more subsequent nuclear reactions, thus leading to the possibility of a self-propagating series of these reactions.

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Nuclear fission

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fission is either a nuclear reaction or a radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts (lighter nuclei).

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Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Nuclear weapon design

Nuclear weapon designs are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate.

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Plutonium

Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Pu and atomic number 94.

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Criticality accident and Gun-type fission weapon Comparison

Criticality accident has 99 relations, while Gun-type fission weapon has 46. As they have in common 9, the Jaccard index is 6.21% = 9 / (99 + 46).

References

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