NASA Running Out of Nuclear Fuel For Batteries
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 23, 2015 -
The radioactive material NASA uses to power spacecraft for its deep
space missions is now in short supply. The Agency says it only has
enough to power three more batteries, leaving the future of American
space exploration in jeopardy.
Plutonium-238 (Pu-238), a hot radioactive isotope that's a byproduct of
the process of making nuclear weapons, is in short supply. NASA has
access to only ab ...
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