Kosmos 954: A Real-life 'Satellite Down'

[Raellus]

YIL that in 1978, a Soviet spy satellite with an onboard compact nuclear reactor fell out of orbit and crash landed in Canada's Northwest Territory. Pieces were recovered by a joint Canadian-US task force during Operation Morning Light, but the onboard reactor is still missing to this day. Vice channel has a series called Hunters, and a recent episode focused on two American nuclear scientists who went looking for the reactor. They didn't find it. Apparently, even now, well after the fall of the USSR, the compact reactor tech is basically unknown, and one of the scientists featured in the program wants to find it because he believes that a similar reactor could safely power up to 150,000 homes. This would be something that would be particularly desirable in the T2k world, so this compact reactor strikes me as a potentially cool MacGuffin for a Canada-based campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954

Speaking of MacGuffins, if you haven't taken the survey for the best T2k MacGuffin yet, here it is:

https://forum.juhlin.com/showthread....cguffin&page=2

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