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I don't understand how these work either, although I do know that Einstein proved that a single atom holds massive amounts of energy if we could just figure out how to get at it. I think nuclear reactions are different, it's where splitting one atom and getting energy out of it also leads to a few more being split, releasing more energy and splitting more atoms, so it's not that one atom releases that much but that one atom sets off a chain reaction. I think. I'm sure there are sifters who know a lot more about this than me.
Plutonium-239 + neutron -> fission fragments + 3 neutrons (usually) + 200,000,000 electron-volts.
If your plutonium is pure enough, and it's compressed together tightly enough, and maybe it's surrounded by something that neutrons will bounce off of, then (let's say) 2 of those 3 neutrons will eventually find other plutonium atoms. And those 2 atoms will release 6 neutrons, 4 of which will find targets... which will release 12 neutrons, 8 of which will find plutonium atoms... and the numbers keep doubling and doubling until you're talking about billions and trillions and quadrillions and quintillions of atoms releasing their 200 million electron volts, at which point you're talking about truly ridiculous amounts of energy.