[SideburnsOfDoom]

Sure you can speed it up: get something else to decay neutrons, protons or alpha particles, on to it.

An atomic bomb is when you convince a lot of Uranium-235 or Plutonium to decay all at once in an uncontrolled way.

A nuclear reactor is what happens when you convince material to decay at a controllable rate.

It's way more complex than that but you can look up the rest, e.g. "Nuclear chain reaction".

Where I think you're going with this is

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/594598/destroyin...

tl;dr: it's more trouble than it's worth, since you need radioactive materials as the neutrons sources, and stray neutrons tend to bump into other matter and cause yet more radioactive waste.

[darkclouds]

> Sure you can speed it up: get something else to decay neutrons, protons or alpha particles, on to it.

So if you could control and direct these NPAP's to behave like a Newton Cradle, you could accelerate them away faster?

Something for CERN to try maybe?

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> Something for CERN to try maybe?

I get the impression that your understanding of the current state of particle physics is approximately 80 years behind the state of the art. You're catching up with Leo Szilard's ideas in the 1930s