how is an atom split?

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I mean, I get the repercussions, but if they are so insanely small, how do you pull it apart? How do you only get one at a time done too – there must be bazillions in any one area so do they split a specific one or it’s just the first one along?

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It’s like breaking a rack with the cue ball. Except each ball in the rack goes on to break a new rack, etc. Causing the chain reaction. Exponential growth gets billions of atoms being split at once in a nuclear explosion. In a reactor there are control rods that absorb some of the neutrons to keep the reaction tampered.

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