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Here is what they use in Alaska for remote weather stations. The stations are about 5ft by 4 ft by 6 ft tall, and you can hear fans whirring inside and see the satellite antenna outside, all inside a chain-link fence with a warning sign. And not a power line in sight.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph241/jiang1/

RTG

It is also described in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

RTG

NASA also uses them in space probes, most notably Cassini. They design the GPHS hot cells to be able to survive reentry even if everything else burns. They are more the size of those square 6 Volt lantern batteries. The Plutonium is surrounded by solid ceramic.

They last for many years, and are perfect for space probes which get beyond the viable range of solar cells.

Here is an official NASA document that describes RTGs: http://saturn-archive.jpl.nasa.gov/files/power.pdf

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