[Enginerrrd]

You control the detonation with either an engineered or natural cavity filled with fluid. You can then use the fluid as a big thermal reservoir to run steam turbines. Per wikipedia:

>"Dropping about two bombs a day would cause the system to reach thermal equilibrium, allowing the continual extraction of about 2 GW of electrical power."

Now... the part you're not getting is that if you can do all that, you can almost certainly just use conventional fission power generation, which is what we really, REALLY need to be doing anyway.

[ncmncm]

Yes, conventional fission would be much cheaper to operate. But it, also, is no longer economically competitive.

[Filligree]

So long as carbon-emitting sources are allowed to be used in the mix. That’s the real problem here.

[ncmncm]

Carbon sources will have been long since priced out of the market before you could finish building a nuke.