Cydrome Leader wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I am taking about tiny coin cell sized lithium batteries that were
used in battery backed RAM and Real Time Clock modules. NASA stated
that if they failed, Lithium could contaminate the atmosphere inside the
ISS.

burst lithium cells do smell truly awful.

those things are up there in space though, so maybe nasa has exceptions,
or just doesn't care about all of them.


Not all of the electronics are in living or working spaces.