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To the stars: After a 25 year hiatus, NASA restarts plutonium production

2013-03-15 12:14:54| Extremetech

It's been a quarter century since the US stopped producing plutonium-238, but shrinking worldwide stockpiles and the need for a suitable deep space power source led NASA and the DOE to begin production once again.

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