In Russia in 1997, an unfortunate technician answered the question, “what would have happened if the ‘Demon Core’ was never stopped in 1946?” This episode of [H ...

A criticality incident is when a nuclear fission chain reaction is caused by accident. The cause is usually quite simple. When it comes to fissionable material, like radioactive isotopes of ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission called it a “criticality accident” in a report several months later. But the bottom line is that when that solution hit the tank, Peabody was splashed with ...

A new international standard for emergency preparedness and response in the event of a criticality accident at a nuclear facility has been issued by the International Organization for Standards (ISO).

They successfully demolished the former Criticality Experiment Laboratory after working over the summer to bring down the dilapidated 1940s-era facility, also known as Building 9213. “Removal of this ...

But 60 years ago, WJAR-TV covered something else that seems hard to imagine: a serious nuclear accident, in Charlestown. The United Nuclear Corp. recovered uranium from contaminated wastewater at ...

It doesn't put efforts in deciding what to do if an accident occurs," said Murakami, 81, who oversaw the evacuation of local residents from the village 25 years ago. The criticality accident ...