Talk:Ion Cube/@comment-175.156.169.35-20170802021459/@comment-33251825-20171216084733

To the other guy with the "stored energy": We have all heard from the countless cases where workers brought a 9 Volt battery into a Uranium mine and caused a thermonuclear accident by holding it against the ore. Millions of lives have been already lost this way. /s

Seriously, you can smash fissable material with a hammer all you want, nothing's gonna happen. If that ionic stuff would be unstable, it would've decayed rapidly over a short amount of time already.

Just because something holds energy, doesn't mean said energy will be released by physical or electrical force.

Most stuff that occurs naturally is rather stingy with yielding the energy it contains. Anything you can think of that readily releases energy when you whack it is man made.