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**UrUROFlS** · 05-08-2011, 08:46 AM

Well atoms do split when a nuclear bomb is detonated, but they all split in an extremely short period of time which requires both highly enriched fissile material (which is very difficult and expensive to create) arranged into a sub critical configuration, as well as a properly designed charge around it to make the fissile material reach criticality and start the explosive chain reaction when detonated. You can't accidentally make a nuclear bomb just by screwing around with some radioactive material.

Atoms also split in a nuclear reactor, but they do so in a controlled manner and they're harnessed in such a way as to heat water which then turns to steam which then turns a generator which then creates electricity.

That article doesn't really give much information as to what he was trying to do or what his capabilities were.

05-08-2011, 08:46 AM	#5
UrUROFlS Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 466 Senior Member	Well atoms do split when a nuclear bomb is detonated, but they all split in an extremely short period of time which requires both highly enriched fissile material (which is very difficult and expensive to create) arranged into a sub critical configuration, as well as a properly designed charge around it to make the fissile material reach criticality and start the explosive chain reaction when detonated. You can't accidentally make a nuclear bomb just by screwing around with some radioactive material. Atoms also split in a nuclear reactor, but they do so in a controlled manner and they're harnessed in such a way as to heat water which then turns to steam which then turns a generator which then creates electricity. That article doesn't really give much information as to what he was trying to do or what his capabilities were.
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