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Monday, March 8, 2021
CONTINUITY: The Nuclear Power Generator That Went to the Bottom of the Sea before Flying in Space
Intact SNAP-19 fuel capsule with a plutonium-238 is shown among debris on Pacific Ocean floor resulting from aborted launch of a ‘Nimbus B’ weather satellite in 1968. Six months later, it was lifted from the bottom and used in the ‘Nimbus 3’ satellite. pic.twitter.com/f91gDReZXy
— NUKES (@atomicarchive) March 7, 2021
Radioisotope thermal generators (RTGs) are tough.
Posted at March 8, 2021 16:25