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I like your art and storytelling, but this tickles my 'tism.
Without turning this into a grad level course in nucular stuff, IRL fuel for nuclear reactors is not suitable for making the stuff that does the big bang boom. It has to do with levels of enrichment of the various isotopes.
In theory you can do a Manhattan Project style setup where, at least if you command the wealth and resources of a fairly affluent nation-state, you can set up a production line that gets you the high-grade stuff that has the applications Femcel has in mind.
As a practical matter this kind of thing is, in the New Century, extremely difficult to hide, even for a nation-state, and will get everybody from the UN to the IAEA to Mossad (lol) all up in yo' grill. They have ways and means of demonstrating their disapproval that start with economic sanctions and escalate from there.
Is Femcel a James Bond movie level supervillainess? ("Bill Gates is a supervillain straight out of a James Bond movie. All he's missing is a fluffy white cat." Well, Femcel IS the cat and the supervillain in one, WAT NOU?) What I am leading up to here is that, while I don't know any billionaires personally, it is possible that one or two of the billionaires I've read about in the newspapers might have fantasies of having their own secret super-science lairs inside an active volcano, with legions of brainwashed fanatical soldiers at their command, and a harem of catgirl meidos, and a submarine to escape just in case James Bond shows up. But, see, even though nuclear weapons are, objectively speaking, an early 20th Century technology, not requiring transistors or integrated circuits to function, and were originally designed by people who didn't have access to CAD. They are complex but not that much more complex than, say, a steam locomotive, or the analog fire control system of a Victorian Era "Dreadnaught" style battleship. But the resources required for a nucular weapons program are many orders of magnitude beyond that. A nation-state can build underground complexes the size of cities to process this stuff. A nation-state can import uranium ore thousands of tons at a time. I do not think it would end well for a billionaire who bought an island with a volcano, landed there, and started making cell-phone calls to uranium mines.
So if Femcel has resources like that, she could probably bribe enough government officials in a nuclear power to write their foreign policy for them and in effect put their arsenal at her disposal.
On the other hand, if you're going for a 20th Century pulp adventure feel, maybe it could work well.
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I don't know. I'm just thinking out loud at this point, because I'm nitpicky that way. Femcel a qt. I can accept anthro cats more easily than I can accept a fictional villain with her own nuclear weapons program. Something must be wrong with my brain.
