Talk:Firebending/@comment-70.156.124.46-20111023222345/@comment-2038185-20111102162722

I don't think firebenders could learn to bend nuclear energy... It needs so high technology and power from us and if you could control it, it'd be extremely lethal (explosion, radiation etc.).. Nuclear power is based on fission and fusion (Check from Wikipedia for example) and I'd say it'd just be too much (even tought the sun actually isn't "fire", it's a giant fusion and the Combustion Man, did I see wrong but isn't his blasts like small nuclear explosions..?). I don't think anyone in Avatar could have such resources as us to discover nuclear power. And Avatar is more about those "basic" elements (fire, earth, air and water (and some variations of them such as lightning (Iroh), ability to control metal (Toph) or sand and even ability to control other lifeforms (Katara))) so I don't believe that could ever happen in Avatar (it's too much power for one person, even if the person would be a super-skilled master or avatar), I'm sorry but I don't think so. Or then it already have happend, Combustion Man mabey is like a miniature of bending "nuclear power"... Who knows?