许多读者来信提出关于日本核电站事故的各种问题,本刊希望下面的文章能够让大家对本次事故有更多的了解。核电站是否会像原子弹那样爆炸?核武器和核电站虽然都带“核”字,都通过铀-235等元素的裂变反应提供能量,但两者在本质上完全不一样。核武器的设计目标是在最短时间内爆炸式释放最多的能量, Many readers have sent letters to raise questions about the accident at a nuclear power plant in Japan. The article hopes the following article will give you a better understanding of the accident. Will nuclear power plants explode like atomic bombs? Although both nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants carry “nuclear” words that provide energy through fission reactions of elements such as uranium-235, the two are fundamentally different in nature. The goal of a nuclear weapon is to explode the maximum amount of energy released in the shortest amount of time,