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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A single atom splitting only releases a tiny amount of energy. So in uranium ore you have atoms splitting but not enough to do anything other than make it a bit warm and maybe give you cancer if you eat it.
To make an explosion you need a large lump of extremely pure uranium to get enough atoms splitting to actually release that much energy.
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