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submitted 3 months ago by skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Careful. That'll add 14320344200 kcal to your dish.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

one kiloton is defined as 10^12 cal or 10^9 kcal

even advanced single stage nukes use up only something like 60% of fissile material so for modern 20kt-ish nuke you're spot on

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks! I just took the trinity test's energy release estimate and converted it.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

I'll run around the block later to make up for it.