This may not be super helpful, but might prove inspirational. One of the highlights of the summer of 2006, for me, was watching the demolition of the Trojan nuclear plant cooling tower from the pilot's seat of my airplane. A professional demolition team used 2950 pounds of carefully placed dynamite to topple this 459 foot tall structure. From the air, it looked like it turned into liquid and just melted down into a heap. I attached a pointer to a video of what this looked like from the ground.
If the amount of explosive needed were proportional to the height, you'd need 514 pounds of dynamite to do the same thing to your silo. But the Trojan tower had much thicker walls, so your silo will need less.
One product that might work for you is "Dexpan". It basically cracks concrete through slow motion chemical expansion, like ice cracks the block of an old tractor. Do a google search for it.
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