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by jackdeansmith 1825 days 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.
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> 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.

Right, yeah that's more important, there's no way to get a runaway chain reaction with an RTG