because it is generally not available. Rest energy is large because the speed of lightcis a large number andc2is a very large number, so thatmc2is huge for any macroscopic mass. The 9.00 × 1013J rest mass energy for 1.00 g is about twice the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic...
"By today's standards the two bombs dropped on a Japan were small -- equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT in the case of the Hiroshima bomb and 20,000 tons in the case of the Nagasaki bomb." 63 TJ(Hiroshima)84 TJ(Nagasaki) Nuclear energy, often mistakenly called atomic energy, is the...