Delayed critical

Adjective

Definitions

1.AdjectiveOf the point at which the prompt neutrons and delayed neutrons produced by a nuclear fission chain reaction, taken together, are just sufficient to sustain the chain reaction, where changes in reaction power occur slowly.

Synonyms

subcritical critical supercritical thermalized internuclear neutron-rich retarded antibunched subnucleonic fast pycnonuclear photonuclear

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