Cecil Kelley criticality accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kelley_criticality_accident

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CheeseAndCrepes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

If there’s one thing my old grandpa taught me when I was a kid is was to make sure that if I were going to stir a solution containing fissile material in a cylindrical container to make sure there wasn’t enough material in the solution to become critical.

I remember his advise every day.