NASA's Plutonium-238 Reserves Get Boost For Space Missions | Video

Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - 12:36 in Astronomy & Space

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has produced 50 grams of the energy source for NASA and other missions. The laboratory's project lead Bob Wham explains how it was processed.

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