The satelite cound also carry one or more Radioisotope Heater Units. These are hard to break and could survive the fall. If one should be recognized as valuble and sold to the higest bidder, this would be _bad_. They contain plutonium dioxide. Plutonium dioxide ground into a dust and put into a bomb would create a bad fallout (at least politically). The result could make it hard for US agencies to use these (useful) devices for quite some time, while China continued to use them.
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The satelite cound also carry one or more Radioisotope Heater Units. These are hard to break and could survive the fall. If one should be recognized as valuble and sold to the higest bidder, this would be _bad_. They contain plutonium dioxide. Plutonium dioxide ground into a dust and put into a bomb would create a bad fallout (at least politically). The result could make it hard for US agencies to use these (useful) devices for quite some time, while China continued to use them.