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Comment by Hacker_Yogi

This is true! Had no idea!

"The Soviet Union has been flying nuclear power sources in space since about 1965. For the most part these nuclear power sources have been low-power nuclear reactors using a thermoelectric conversion principle."

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19900051140

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