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Re:‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium f... by hunta2097 on Sunday September 24, 2017 @07:07AM (#15324274)
Indeed, check out the infamous Demon Core:

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

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Re:‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium f... by maccard on Sunday September 24, 2017 @09:39AM (#15324645)
Funny, that happened at los alamos again. That place really doesn't have a good record
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Re:‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium f... by tyingq on Sunday September 24, 2017 @01:44PM (#15325679)
That was 2 separate "demon core" incidents, about a year apart...so they clearly didn't learn much from the first one.
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Re:‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium f... by duskwuff on Sunday September 24, 2017 @02:07PM (#15325771)
And at the time, Los Alamos was essentially the only place in the country -- probably the world -- doing that kind of research. So it's not really surprising that both incidents occurred there.
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