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Well back to facts: does anyone know how many of these things were made? What did they power? http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2010/belarus_mobile_nuke_plants within this article is a brief history. The two types were pilot programs cut short by the Chernobyl. The name of this is...

So I guess this is pretty well in the "confirmed" column. I know of the Nuclear batteries you are talking about. Most space craft for deep exploration carried a variety of them. Same principle as a solar pannel just instead of solar radiation you use plutonium or another "donor" substance and...

Yeah, but that is the only source I have found was the English>Russian site. I have my doubts that they ever even built anything like that. Would be rather feasible and Russia is so massive I could understand the need but I still doubt someone would do it. But, the reports sounded like not...

Ok I ran across a reference to Russian (USSR) mobile nuclear power plants. Basically a small nuclear pile that could be driven to a site and provide steam to power a generator. Some of the pics apear to be Tatra trucks or a tracked vehicle. Does anyone have any sort of confermation of...