NASA's deep space missions may get new jolt of fuel
Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 19:42
in Mathematics & Economics
The Energy Department has requested $30 million to relaunch a program to make radioactive plutonium-238, a supply of which is running low. The Department of Energy plans to restart its program of making radioactive fuel for NASA's deep space missions, the agency announced Thursday, a decision that came only hours after the National Research Council warned that the nation is fast running out of the fuel.