Do you know what prevented an explosion?

Harry Daghlian (1945) — Daghlian was conducting experiments to find the critical mass of the core. He accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto the core, making it go supercritical. He quickly removed the brick but was exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.
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Hjalmar Peters
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Sep 2, 2023
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Do you know what prevented an explosion? I mean, what limited the chain reaction while the brick was on the core?
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