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lightgreen on June 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nuclear Power at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

> 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 on June 23, 2021 [–]

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

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