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    The energy stored in fissile elements mostly doesn’t come from fusion, it comes from gravitational potential energy released when stellar cores collapse. Most supernovae mostly aren’t fusion; almost all that energy comes from mass falling down into a neutron star or black hole.

    Fissile elements are still produced through fusion, but this process takes energy from the supernova and stores it, just like fossil fuel is stored sunlight.