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I periodically encounter a source that states that energy is conserved
except during nuclear reactions.
It is my understanding that energy is always conserved, even in nuclear
reactions.
The mass-energy equivalence is really between the
"potential" energy and the mass, so it is the *kinetic* energy that is
not conserved during nuclear reactions, not the *total* energy.