• DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Technical hurdles and scarcity of plutonium aside, just think about how many car accidents happen in a major city on any given day, and then imagine all those vehicles involved are running on batteries being trickle charged by plutonium RTGs that just underwent a violent collision. There’s just so many ways for that to go really really badly. Public safety concerns will be the number one barrier to something like this.