Not so. It's widely believed by scientists that the heat generated by the decay of radioactive minerals helps to fuel the convection of magma from in the earth, alongside — to a degree — the earth's magnetism and the basic laws of thermodynamics. Iron has a high mass and heat from the pressure alone can't account for the level of tectonic activity we have. It's entirely plausible that without the abundance of radioactive material we have this world would see diminished tectonic activity or even be tectonically dead. This is cause for more research, I think, and could yield fascinating results, especially if we were to compare core temperatures, magma convection, levels of iron, and the radioactive minerals and magnetic fields of Earth and Mars — Mars being tectonically dead. I said nothing about explosions, nor do I believe anything I said could even obliquely lead to such a conclusion.
What was wrong with my nuclear power post? It's an interesting thing to think about. Are you allergic to more abstract and imaginative cognitive fee-wheeling? It may behoove you not to disparage others that sort of creative thinking, especially when there's a kernel of plausibility underlying their speculation, especially implying that such thinking is the result of a feeble mind — you only serve to insult your own intellectual capacity in doing so.
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