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NASA’s Plutonium-238 gap… and who caused it

Submit on Friday, March 7th, 2008 06:00

At a congressional hearing, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said that “not too far from now we will have used the last kilogram of Plutonium-238, and if we want more Plutonium-238, we’ll have to buy it from Russia.” This has been known for years, but nonetheless Dr. Griffin’s remarks were widely reported and commented by news media.

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