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by allisvancity 1153 days ago
They evidently used to use radiothermal generators (RTGs) as the power source for some pacemakers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

Plutonium is nasty & expensive stuff, however. That puts some pretty severe limitations on its usefulness for domestic purposes.

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RTGs in humans: not for a long time.