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The issue is getting the plutonium.
by adestefan 12y ago
The issue is getting the plutonium.
- virtue3 12y agonasa almost used up the last bits of our reserves of it for the last mars lander. Thankfully it appears that the united states department of energy is re-visiting generating plutonium-238 for NASA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238#United_States_supply http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238#United_States_sup...
- protomyth 12y agoYet another reason to build thorium reactors since the "waste product" is PU-238.