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Rough Calculation:
Uranium Boiling Point: 4000 C
Heat Capacity (midpoint): 500 J per Kg/K
Heat of Fusion: 300 kJ/kg
Energy per unit mass to be dispersed = 4000*500 + 300,000 = 2.3 MJ/kg
1700 fuel channels
150 kg per fuel channel
Energy Yield = 2.3*1700*150 = ~600 GJ = ~143 tons of TNT (less than the first 2 Chernobyl explosions)