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Plutonium 238 would be your best bet for such devices, if only because it's halflife is 87.7 years. Strontium 90 might also work, with a halflife of 28.8 years.

However plutonium would not be easy to put in every house since you have to make it in nuclear reactors. You get about half a kilowatt per kilogram of it, I don't think production of it could scale that high.

Strontium is naturally occurring and relatively common. Sr 90 is a trace isotope though. Off the top of my head I would suspect you would be facing similar challenges that separation of Uranium isotopes face.



Sr-90 is not naturally occurring because of its short half-life. Any Sr-90 found today is either from weapons testing or made in a reactor.




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