NRC Urges Restart Of Plutonium-238 Line For Spacecraft
NASA is running out of plutonium-238, the nuclear-weapons byproduct it uses to generate electricity for spacecraft that venture beyond the range of solar energy, and a National Research Council (NRC) panel recommends the U.S. government restart production to enable deep-space exploration to continue...
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