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Criticality Theory

Criticality Theory is a theoretical framework within neutron transport theory that determines the conditions under which a nuclear system sustains a self-perpetuating fission chain reaction by analyzing the balance between neutron production and loss.

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2017–2026

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Being Critical of Criticality in the Brain

John M. Beggs, Nicholas M. Timme · Frontiers in Physiology · 2012 · 523 citations · Full text

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Criticality of Iron and Its Principal Alloying Elements

Philip Nuss, E. M. Harper, Nedal T. Nassar et al. · Environmental Science & Technology · 2014 · 103 citations

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Self-organised criticality—what it is and what it isn’t

Roman Frigg · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A · 2003 · 94 citations

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Reactor Criticality and Nonnegative Matrices

Garrett Birkhoff, Richard S. Varga · Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · 1958 · 90 citations

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Robin Hood as self-organized criticality

S. I. Zaitsev · Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications · 1992 · 88 citations

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Authors

131

  1. TE
    T. E. Graedel

    Yale University, United States

    2 publications · 130 citations

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  2. MK
    Matthias Keller

    Innsbruck Medical University, Austria

    2 publications · 20 citations

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  3. EC
    E.D. Clayton

    Battelle, United States

    2 publications · 29 citations

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  4. FP
    Felix Pogorzelski

    University of Potsdam, Germany

    2 publications · 20 citations

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  5. KK
    Keisuke Kobayashi

    SPring-8, Japan

    2 publications · 21 citations

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Institutions

73

  1. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    51 citations

  2. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

    Haifa, Israel

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    57 citations

  3. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    56 citations

  4. Battelle

    Columbus, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    77 citations

  5. Center for Environmental Health

    Oakland, United States

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    569 citations

  6. Delft University of Technology

    Delft, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    87 citations

  7. Leipzig University

    Leipzig, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    20 citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    47 citations

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Venues

  1. Nuclear Science and Engineering

    4 publications · 69 citations

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  2. Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

    JNST · 3 publications · 70 citations

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  3. Annals of Nuclear Energy

    3 publications · 46 citations

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  4. FOOTPRINT

    2 publications · 30 citations

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  5. Transport Theory and Statistical Physics

    2 publications · 40 citations

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