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Friday, March 15, 2013

U.S. Starts Making Plutonium Again

U.S. Starts Making Plutonium Again

Irene Klotz, Discovery News
After a 25-year hiatus, the Unites States has produced its first non-weapons grade plutonium needed to power space probes when solar energy won’t suffice.NASA has been using a radioactive material called plutonium-238 to power its deep space probes since the 1970s.http://www.realclearscience.com/2013/03/14/us_starts_making_plutonium_again_251978.html?utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=rss

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