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Those are RTGs that harvest a couple hundred watts of decay heat for really remote applications. Often used in space probes, etc... Bit of a different safety pr
by jackdeansmith 5y ago
Those are RTGs that harvest a couple hundred watts of decay heat for really remote applications. Often used in space probes, etc... Bit of a different safety profile since they're low power and generally don't have any moving parts.
- lightgreen 5y ago> since they're low power and generally don't have any moving parts Rather since they don't have a critical mass/configuration which makes them impossible to explode.
- jackdeansmith 5y agoRight, yeah that's more important, there's no way to get a runaway chain reaction with an RTG