Pulsed columns were chosen to avoid the risk of a criticality incident occurring within the plant.
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However, a " criticality incident " quite similar to the Tokaimura accident has happened at one US commercial processing facility, the long-closed United Nuclear Corporation plant in Charlestown, R . I.
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The blue light is thought to be a sign of a " criticality incident, " which is the point at which a nuclear chain reaction occurs, similar to what happens inside a nuclear reactor.
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It also contains a safe-geometry digestion system used to process enriched uranium materials assaying up to 5 % 235 U . This digester was so named because the piping was of such a diameter and distance between pipes making a criticality incident nigh impossible.
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The task force list did not include a criticality incident at a private nuclear fuel processing plant in Rhode Island in 1964, in which a worker was killed, nor two such accidents at Los Alamos in the 1940s that involved experimental attempts to achieve criticality.
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Depictions of the criticality incident include the 1989 film " Fat Man and Little Boy ", in which John Cusack plays a fictional character named Michael Merriman based on Slotin, and the " Louis Slotin Sonata ", a 2001 off-Broadway play directed by David P . Moore.
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If I had two pieces of Pu ( 238 ) ( each weighing 5Kg ), one in each hand and brought them togther quickly, how much netron flux would I get and how far away would someone have to be to survive such a criticality incident ?-- talk ) 21 : 02, 10 April 2016 ( UTC)
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