Originally posted by Ashrak
okhay call me stupid but dont nuclear cores make a helluva bang when they fuze? i mean cmn look at the nuke ... yes the initial explosion to create the temp is big but after theat the Hydro atoms go kaboom
Indeed, but mind you that's the result of a considerable chain reaction. They fuse lots and lots and lots of hydrogen together all at once (IIRC, by setting off a fission bomb around it, creating great heat and pressure) and those release so much energy that the other hydrogen atoms have enough energy to fuse, making more energy and so on til you run out of hydrogen.
This only seems to do 1 or 2 at a time, and while they give off energy, it's not enough to heat the rest of the atoms to the point of a chain reaction. Only the ones directly affected by the electric field can possibly fuse.
