What's this? Oh, just Russian moving nuclear weapons closer to Ukraine
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Nagasaki and Hiroshima would both beg to disagree with Akio Nakatani, and the residents in Chernobyl would probably have an opinion on this as well. You do not heat, or use chemistry to make Uranium "explosive", and only certainly very pure forms of the isotope are applicable to a weapons grade. At it's most basic concept, you are converting a very small amount of matter, directly into energy (E=mc^2) So if you take 1 gram (about the size of one half of pea) x (speed of light)x(speed of light) and you get a very big number, that is released instantaneously. The amount of energy converted, is measured in Megatons (or millions of tons equivalent to dynamite)
His "Hoax" powers our subs, aircraft carriers, ~90% of France, much of the USSR and is located on many US college campuses where they are run and have been running for over 50 years to understand and teach these principles. A bomb releases the energy instantaneously; a power plant releases the same type of energy - but slowly and in a controlled process. A rocket releases energy slowly, a pipe bomb does a similar process, but releases it instantaneously.
I guess I will try to forget my college classes in advanced physics, nuclear propulsion, semiconductors and radioactive shielding, Nuclear Fission and Fusion. Perhaps you should move our of the fiction center, and into the non-fiction areas. Science is hard, math is hard; crap is easy. Screaming hoax at math, physics, chemistry, nuclear reactions and quantum computing theories you don't understand is insanely easy.
Nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons use some of the same principles. One is contained, slow and the reaction is constrained; the other is not contained, fast and without constraint.