What Is the Meaning of the Term "Critical Mass

question 63

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the term "critical mass"?

• A)This refers to the mass of the "critical" elements in a reactor, i.e., the uranium or plutonium.
• B)This refers to the minimum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
• C)This refers to the maximum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
• D)This is the amount of mass needed to make a power reactor economically feasible.
• E)This is the material which is just on the verge of becoming radioactive.

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Definitions:

Base Class

The primary class from which other classes inherit properties and behaviors.

Clock Class

A class provided by some programming languages or libraries that represents and manages dates, times, or timestamps, often used for time measurements or manipulations.

"Is A" Relationship

Describes the inheritant relationship in object-oriented programming where an instance of a subclass can also be considered an instance of the parent class.

Private Methods

Methods within a class that are accessible only by other methods of the same class.