Dennis Whyte

So that's how a fission power plant works.

It's very important.

And when you intentionally design it, that it creates more than one fission reaction per starting reaction, then it exponentiates away, which is what a nuclear weapon is.

Yeah, so what you do is you very quickly put together enough of these materials that can undergo fission with room temperature neutrons.

And you put them together fast enough that what happens is that this process can essentially grow mathematically like very fast.

And so this releases large amounts of energy.

So that's the underlying reason that it works.

So you've heard of a fusion weapon.

So this is interesting is that it is – but it's dislike fusion energy in the sense that what happens is that you're using –

fusion reactions to but it's simply it increases the gain actually of the weapon rather than um it's it's not a pure at its heart it's still a fission weapon you're just using fusion reactions as a sort of intermediate catalyst basically to get even more energy out of it but it's not directly applicable to to be used in an energy source

I wouldn't say terrify.

I mean, we should be...

This is the progress of humanity.

Every time that we've gotten access... You know, the day the universe changed.

It was really changed when we got access to new kinds of energy sources.

But every time you get access... And typically what this meant was you get access to more intense energy, right?

And that's what that was.

And so the ability to move from burning wood to using coal, to using gasoline and petrol, and then finally to use this is that...

is that both the potency and the consequences are elevated around those things.

Well, yeah, but see, that's the thing.