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Excerpt...<br /><br />-------------------------------------------------------------------<br />NASA's objective will be to use nuclear power much more frequently to open previously isolated areas of the solar system for robotic exploration as early as 2013, Aviation Week reports. NASA is moving quickly to make space nuclear power, and eventually nuclear propulsion, an inherent design element in near term, medium cost planetary missions.<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />Excellent! <br /><br />DIPS ain't a reactor, but I'll take anything we can get which helps cure the allergy to space nuclear power.<br /><br /><br />Aviation Week : NASA to accelerate space nuclear power