Comment on Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere?
Magister@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What do you define as nuclear power? Because something like Pioneer 10 which is in space since 1972, is using a nuclear reactor to provide its power, and it is still working.
pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 1 year ago
yep. a lot of variance in different configurations of radioisotope thermoelectric generators - anywhere between a few watts to 5kW if they’re designed to be modular. TEG’s are crazy efficient, they just sit there & decay, producing power.