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It's a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, aka a "nuclear battery". It's stable and safe and only uses a small amount of plutonium (of a type that isn't useful for making bombs). They're so reliable that they use RTGs for spacecraft like Voyager and Cassini.
I know about riteg, but not during ww2