posted on Jan, 5 2009 @ 10:12 PM
The RTG's (radiostope thermonuclear generators) as also used on Pioneer 10,11, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, and Cassini...upon being crushed or burning
up in atmosphere, would NOT blow up...thie is no detonator, therfore it cannot cause a linked chain reaction... U 238 an atom pops, and escalates in a
chain reaction very rapidly..casuing an explosion..
In the atmospheres, the case holdings of the RTG's would simply crinkle like a soda can being stepped on, then burn up as if they never existed.