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Answer 1

Yes. It is a form of kinetic energy. Because it shoots out particles from the nucleus. And, however small they may be, they still move away from the nucleus. Which means that they are a form of kinetic energy.

Answer 2

Well hmm... that is slightly difficult conceptual question to answer. The short answer is no that radiation is not a form of Kinetic Energy. However, they related. I feel like you are on the right track or asking right questions because Kinetic Energy is usually described as the energy of the motion. I turns out that Radiation or Light is one of the 3 forms of entropy just like sound and heat are. (Sorry for the delay I was double checking some definitions) ... Thermal energy is in fact energy of random motion (of particles measured as an average). Acoustic Energy (Sound) is energy of uniform oscillation (of particles) or uniform back and forth of particles. In fact one can think of heat as """"average kinetic energy"""" of the particles be diffused ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion). All of these are energies of motion, so why should not Light be an energy of motion too? In fact light radiation is an energy of motion of particle called the photon AND also the energy of the photon itself!!

Deeper answer is no radiation is a form of Entropic Energy that made up all Kinetic Energy and ''relativistic term''. Kinetic Energy is a part of Radiation not the other way around!!!! (If we had a Venn Diagram the two circle completely overlap except the Radiation would be slightly bigger and slightly off center than Kinetic energy circle. (Now I will say if your taking a 8th grade standardized test please put that light is a form of Kinetic Energy. Yes, I know its wrong, but they don't talk about Relativity, in 8th grade science.)

To illustrate this I would like to actually use some equations from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon#Physical_properties. I am using that website because all the equations for energy of light are there in nice and easy to remember form (including E = mc^2).
In term of waves the Total Radiation is \[E = \frac{\hbar c}{wavelength} \]. However in terms of relativity corrections to newton's laws of motion that Total Radiation of a photon is \[E^{2} = (pc)^{2} + (m_{0}c^{2})^{2}\]. As you may have guessed, \[E _{0} = m_{0}c^{2}\] is the famous Einstein equation people know about. What most people don't realize is that he wrote down the E^2 equation for relativistic energy E = mc^2 is simply the rest energy for a rest mass. Now rest energy is equal 0 for light because light is massless. However, Non-electromagnetic radiation from Helium (alpha) or Leptons (beta ie electrons) is not massless! Now, I will say again that you were on the right track because its the p^2c^2 that is the Kinetic Energy. The only issue is that you didn't realize that radiation covers slightly bigger and broader scope of the variety of energy than kinetic energy does.