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State the reasons. Why a chain reaction stops?

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(i) A nuclear chain reaction dies out, when the neutrons produced so fast they escape from the uranium without interacting.
(ii) When the neutrons are lost due to the extremely small size of uranium (i.e. smaller than critical size).
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