Space Fuel: Plutonium-238 Created After 30-Year Wait

Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - 08:31 in Astronomy & Space

Scientists have produced a powder of plutonium-238 for the first time in nearly 30 years in the United States, a milestone that they say sets the country on a path toward powering NASA's deep-space exploration and other missions.

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