Question

You are the Engineering Duty Officer getting your submarine, the USS GREENVILLE, ready to put to sea. When nuclear material in the reactor is fissioning at an increasing rate, this is known as a:__________

Answer 1

Super-critical mass

Step-by-step explanation:

This term refers to the mass, in which the amount of fission processes per unit of time increases to the point, where some intrinsic feedback mechanism causes the reactor to reach an equilibrium point at a high temperature or power, that is, It becomes critical again, or it is destroyed due to the amount of processes.