Plutonium shortage continues to plague space exploration
SEP 29, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023719
NPR : NASA is running out of the special kind of plutonium needed to power deep space probes, worrying planetary scientists who say the US urgently needs to restart production of plutonium-238.But it’s unclear whether Congress will provide the $30 million that the administration requested earlier this year for the Department of Energy to get a new program going.
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