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by masklinn 1380 days ago
Yeah the URSS made routine use of RTGs throughout their territory (pretty logically as it's so vast and low-density electrification can't reach everywhere), and those routinely got misplaced. Things got worse after the fall of the URSS too e.g. a helo dropped two RTGs from 50m while airlifting them in 2004.