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I wonder if NASA is going to end up buying plutonium for RTGs from Russia years down the road.
by ak217 11y ago
I wonder if NASA is going to end up buying plutonium for RTGs from Russia years down the road.
- dogma1138 11y agoThey've started making PU238 again, they've actually almost ran out of it and getting it from the Russians is becoming harder and harder due to tensions between the countries... http://spacenews.com/russia-withholding-plutonium-nasa-needs-deep-space-exploration/ http://spacenews.com/russia-withholding-plutonium-nasa-needs... So after pretty much running out of PU238 after spending most of it on New Horizons and Curiosity NASA has finally managed to get funding for the DOE to start making it again...