Raven's Gate
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Raven's Gate is the first book in The Power of Five series, written by Anthony Horowitz. It was published and released in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2005, by Walker Books Ltd and in the United Sta
First earlier US edition
Criticality accident
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A criticality accident is an accidental uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction. It is sometimes referred to as a critical excursion, critical power excursion, divergent chain reaction, or simply
Raven's Gate
…visit a nuclear scientist called Sir Michael Marsh, who dismisses their concerns that the villagers might be trying to restart Omega One to create an excursion. They then meet with Susan Ashwood, a medium whose mother had written a book about Lesser Malling, and who Richard considers a fake. The two finally…
The sphere of plutonium surrounded by neutron-reflecting tungsten carbide blocks in a re-enactment of Harry Daghlian's 1945 experiment
A re-creation of the Slotin incident. The plutonium "demon core" (the same as in the Daghlian incident) was inside at the time of the accident, and would not be visible.
Lady Godiva assembly in the scrammed (safe) configuration
Lady Godiva assembly, with damaged supporting rods after the excursion of February 1954. Note the images are of different assemblies.