why splitting uranium releases energy but we haven’t see any stray (random) nuclear explosion in natural ore deposits?

Question

And if splitting atom releases energy, why haven’t these energy break from their atom themselves? Isn’t that means the force that bind the atoms are bigger than the energy released?

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Answer 1

When I was a kid, I thought that I’d you had a sharp enough knife and hit a cutting board with it, that you could split an atom and accidentally cause a nuclear explosion.