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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by Sharlin on Saturday June 29, 2019 @06:12AM (#20311744)
No, not quite. One of the types of radioactive decay is spontaneous fission, but it's not relevant in the context of RTGs. Alpha decay (the emission of a 4He nucleus) might in principle be called "fission" but in practice is not. Beta decay involves no splitting whatsoever.

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