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Originally Posted by RogerBW
It's a setting assumption that getting a boom rather than a prolonged fizzle out of antimatter takes work. (The energy release tends to push the reacting surfaces apart. This is the best current theory I could find while working on Meltdown and Fallout.)
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So the end effect is it is very bad for the ship it happens on, but the blast wouldn't really expand into the surroundings very far? I also suspect radiation would be pretty bad onboard any ship this happened on, but I think it would be a moot point for all but the smallest releases of antimatter.