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This is a single-component rocket fuel, which means the rocket will not explode in a huge slow-burning red fireball, but detonate like a nuclear explosion, minimal visual effects but maximum shockwave, and a mushroom cloud of vapor.
This one behaves like Acetone peroxide. Is it similiar unstable/unusable?
Edit: well...
… what causes the radiation to heat things up? Surely not a detonation event that compresses fissile material.
Well ok. Edited it out.
Dope.
Get Elon on that rocket at once