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As I understand it, the nuclear reactor metaphor is simply another way of saying "explosive" or "trending at least exponentially".
Note that most (admittedly fictional) descriptions of intelligence explosion include "bootstrapping" improved hardware (e.g. Greg Egan's Crystal Nights)