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thejml2000 t1_iz7pt2i wrote

Reply to comment by Zebo1013 in How nuclear waste will help spacecraft explore the Moon — and beyond by Aeromarine_eng

Depends on the volume. Generally, about the same as any of the RTG’s we’ve launched on NASA or ESA probes. Not much. It burns up and distributes in the atmosphere to almost nothing in a wide swath. But again it really depends on the volume and when the malfunction happens.

There was a huge uproar during the Cassini–Huygens probe launch and NASA studies because of it.

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