The idea of putting a decaying radioactive isotope inside your chest might make you a little uneasy—and rightly so. But in 1967, the National Heart Institute and the Atomic Energy Agency set out to make it happen in the form of a plutonium-238-powered atomic heart. Think Tony Stark with nuclear waste in his chest.
The program, operating on Federal funds, actually went on for about a decade and was spurred by contractors who took great pains to frame this atomic solution as the only solution.
via Gizmodo
