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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (18 children)

As I've learned more, the energy from a single atom is not much. They split nitrogen long before uranium but it didn't really matter. You need the chain reaction of uranium.

From Gemini:

The energy released from a single uranium atom splitting is an infinitesimally tiny fraction of what's needed to even warm a mug of water. You would need the simultaneous fission of approximately 1.96 quadrillion (1,960,000,000,000,000) uranium atoms to heat a single mug of water.

*JFC what's up with the downvotes? Because I used Gemini?

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

No, I amanium!

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