The Soviets deployed *a lot* of [nuclear heaters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-M) across their empire.
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The Soviets deployed a lot of nuclear heaters across their empire. I think they even had nuclear buoys. These units can also produce electricity, which is why capitalist countries also used them, but for space probes too far from the sun for solar.
That stuff got forgotten and abandoned after 1991. It's caused some rather nasty injuries, that we know about.