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Not always no.
If you remember the old "trimphone dials" for example - or the glow-in-the-dark fishing floats which consist of a small glass tube, these contain tritium gas. The disintigration of this yields light. The ouput of energy however is anything but huge - typically in the order of attowatts for even a large tube.
On the other hand, a nuclear power station or bomb can yield power levels in billions and trillions of watts.
So, without a more defined question, the answer can only really be an expansion of "Sometimes."
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All nuclear reactions due to nuclear transmutation?
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What does the term nuclear reaction refer to?
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