Plutonium-238 Production Restored For Deep Space Missions
Credit: Curiosity rover: NASA
HOUSTON – The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has restored a domestic plutonium-238 production capability after a three-decade lapse by processing a 50-gram sample of the radioactive electrical power source needed for future NASA deep space missions. The ORNL, relying on about...
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