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DESPERATELY SEEKING PLUTONIUM

DESPERATELY SEEKING PLUTONIUM

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DESPERATELY SEEKING PLUTONIUM

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DESPERATELY SEEKING PLUTONIUM

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London: Nature Publishing Group

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Nature (London), 2014-11, Vol.515 (7528), p.484

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English

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London: Nature Publishing Group

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As a result, NASA now has just 35 kilograms of plutonium product - a small supply that may not match the demand to send missions to Mars, the moons of Jupiter and beyond. And the crunch got even worse in late 2013, when budget constraints led NASA to cancel a programme to develop a radioisotope power source that would have used one-quarter of the plutonium of conventional designs (see Nature http://doi.org/w8m; 2013)....

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DESPERATELY SEEKING PLUTONIUM

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1632527552

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1632527552

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0028-0836

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1476-4687

DOI

10.1038/515484a

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