Submitted by Vegetable_Noise_1124 t3_116j7cm in explainlikeimfive
Dysan27 t1_j9dcbda wrote
Reply to comment by AquaRegia in Eli5 How does nuclear fuel get spent so fast? by Vegetable_Noise_1124
RTG's also tend to use isotopes with a much shorter half-life (since they decay faster and produce more energy). So while they can last years/decades, they don't last the centuries/millenia of nuclear fuel.
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