Between 1958 and 1978 government-owned processing plants had six "criticality" accidents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can It Happen Here?] Reference

Incumbent Lee County School Board member Steve Teuber sent us to the dictionary when he said his business background is needed for the "criticality" of finances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naples Daily News Stories] Reference

The criticality of a target changes with the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [FM 7-85 Chapter 5 Strike Operations]

The criticality continued intermittently for about 20 hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan] Reference

Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan - Encyclopedia of Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan] Reference

"And just what does criticality mean in this case?" asked Smith.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind from The Sun]

Companies such as T-Mobile understand the criticality of Cisco's report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ramon Nuez: T-Mobile Continues Expanding it's HSPA+ Footprint] Reference

Tokai-mura, Japan, 1999 (criticality in fuel plant for an experimental reactor).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan] Reference

The number of criticality one items, as they used to call it on the space shuttle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2003] Reference

Emergency response personnel at the site of the Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan] Reference

His first computer model representing self-organizing criticality was of a pile of sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ning Demo Video] Reference

However, criticality is a concern for the handling, packaging, and shipping of enriched uranium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Depleted uranium] Reference

I have renewed appreciation for the criticality of careful selection of Ph.D. committee members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Committee Members and Reference Letter Love] Reference

There seems to be a law of nature, self-organizing criticality, by which new forms come into being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ning Demo Video] Reference

Self-organizing criticality is an idea proposed by Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist, Per Bak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ning Demo Video] Reference

Wearing a long white lab coat, Harvey plotted the curve of criticality with a slide rule and clipboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

Wolf, however, chalks up the SAP/Oracle virtualization numbers in part to the criticality of the workloads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half of VMware customers virtualize Microsoft Exchange] Reference

"We see people moving in the direction of managed DNS as the criticality of their Web sites go up," Daly says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will security worries propel DNS into the cloud?] Reference

Because the uranium is not enriched, there is no criticality hazard and little fire or explosive hazard for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear fuel cycle] Reference

Suppose fads were a form of self-organized criticality arising out of the chaotic system of the popular culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Futures Imperfect]

About 2 billion years ago, at least 17 natural nuclear reactors achieved criticality in a rich deposit of uranium ore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear power reactor] Reference

The shape of the hundred-liter precipitation tank (450mm diameter and 660mm high) enhanced the likelihood of criticality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan] Reference

It is still under way, and we've all agree in the past half hour or so of the criticality and the pivotal role of Michigan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Will the Media Turn Its Back on John McCain? - February 20, 2000] Reference

Chemical, radiological, and criticality hazards at fuel fabrication facilities are similar to hazards at enrichment plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear fuel fabrication] Reference

Some are captured but the others go on to cause fissions at the rate of about 400 per source proton (at 97% of criticality).    From Wordnik.com.  [Accelerator-driven nuclear energy] Reference

After the criticality had been terminated and shielding was emplaced, radiation levels beyond the JCO site returned to normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan] Reference

The PBMR Demonstration Power Plant (DPP) is expected to start construction at Koeberg in 2009 and achieve criticality in 2013.    From Wordnik.com.  [Small nuclear power reactors] Reference

The last of these was the single previous criticality accident at a commercial fuel plant in the US, which resulted in one death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan] Reference

A sphere is the geometric shape that provides the smallest surface area in relation to mass, lowering the threshold of criticality.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get a Nuclear Bomb] Reference

In a 1997 report, a panel of independent experts said safety personnel at some of those plants "have no prior firsthand experience in criticality.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Can It Happen Here?] Reference

Joe was close enough to Harvey to see him draw an outline of the room, the position of each man around the Dragon, equations, a curve of criticality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

The criticality of this position is of the utmost importance in that he may be the only one within four million square miles that hears a mayday call.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2002] Reference

These are the areas to which the oil wells feed, and the criticality of them is if destroyed, it would take a very long time to regenerate and rebuild.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003] Reference

The prevention of criticality was based upon the general licensing requirements for mass and volume limitation, as well as upon the design of the process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan] Reference

All of them were contaminated as the unplanned chain reaction -- "inadvertent criticality," in scientific jargon -- turned the plant into a crude nuclear reactor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can It Happen Here?] Reference

Disposal of high-enriched or even 20% enriched fuel needs to address problems of criticality and requires the use of neutron absorbers or diluting or spreading it out in some way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Research reactors] Reference