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Re:U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars by m4rtink on Sunday July 26, 2020 @06:34AM (#23956018)
Actually the RTG fuel capsule thermal and mechanical protection is so good, that when the Nimbus B satellite fell into the ocean due to a launch failure, they recovered it's RTG power source from the ocean floor and relaunched it on Nimbus 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_B
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Re:U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars by Teknoman117 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:08PM (#23958056)
If I recall correctly, the RTG that was on Apollo 13's Lunar Module also survived reentry (since they dumped it into Earth's atmosphere after using it as a life boat). It's intact somewhere on the bottom of the ocean.
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