[TigerLikesRooster]

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[muawiyah]

So, you have a bunch of fissionable material sitting there fissioning away, and no longer contained within its stainless steel fuel housings ~ at a low rate of course ~ but it's still fissioning.

You take tons of water, with the requisite inclusion of some Deuterium and a small amount of Tritum, and you pump it into this mass in an attempt to cool it, and you get a surprising increase in temperature!

Is this a joke?

That's basically what you do in a few milliseconds in your typical friendly neighborhood hydrogen bomb.