What are the smallest critical mass conditions helped by?

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  1. Removing all neutrons
  2. Heating the material to plasma
  3. Conserving emitted neutrons and slowing them

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  1. Nuclear physics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_physics Checked 2026-11-07.

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