The Soviet Union built a chain of autonomous lighthouses to guide ships finding their way in the dark polar night across uninhabited shores, hundreds and hundreds miles away from any populated areas. They were powered by small lightweight atomic reactors. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unattended automatic lighthouses continued to work for some time, but soon they started to disintegrate, mostly from copper and other metal looting. The looters either didn’t care or didn’t know the meaning of the “Radioactive Danger” sign and ignored them, breaking in and destroying the equipment. They even broke into the reactors, causing the lighthouses to become radioactively polluted.
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