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NASA Restarts Plutonium Production
Celarent Darii writes "In what looks like good news for the American Space program, NASA has restarted production of plutonium. According to the article, after the closure of Savannah Rivers reactor NASA purchased plutonium from Russia, but since 2010 this was no longer possible. The native production of plutonium is a step forward for the space program to achieve the energy density for long term space exploration."
if Iran will impose sanctions on the United States...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
.... make up your mind?
You used to produce Plutonium and you saw it was good. But then man got greedy and raced upward to the skies and eat from the forbidden fruit. And complicated-gdp-involving-economy-formula was not happy and it convinced you that it was bad. And Plutonium was no more, Savannah Rivers dropped the Rivers and became a p0rn5tar and the fallen from grace NASA purchased plutonium from Russia. Now there is what looks like good news, the saviour will be born, the native plutonium-producer child of NASA. A step forward for the space program to achieve the energy density for long space exploration. After a jump backward, sort of.
I wish we just got rid of the jumps backward.
Nonsense. NASA wouldn't want to go backwards now, not when they're on the verge of building their very own rocket that can take men into space!
Your political party doesn't care about your rights and only represents corporate interests.
is Plutonium still considered an atom?
Maybe if NASA is really good Santa will bring them some plutonium.
Good? They cut down Pluto until it was a dwarf, and now are making this 'plutonium' which I can only assume is made from Pluto's corpse...
They'll be getting coal, indeed. Or something to power an RTG. One of the two.
If you want to kill multiple birds, then wind turbines are the answer.
/ducks
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Because they demoted Pluto, NASA only gets dwarfium now.
Table-ized A.I.