US govt approves Nuke Fuel for deep space projects

[caper]

US govt approves Nuke Fuel for deep space projects. They will deliver the fuel by 2006 and give experiement projects. Will will garantee the successful power plants. Give us your suggestions.<br /><br />Caper the Red

 

[odysseus145]

Do you have a link? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[flynn]

Agreed we need more information <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

<font color="yellow">"US govt approves Nuke Fuel for deep space projects. They will deliver the fuel by 2006 and give experiement projects."</font><br /><br />Are you, by any chance, referring to the plutonium fuel needed for the New Horizons spacecraft's RTG? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[rvastro]

Is there any reason they could not use the plutonium pits from scrapped nuclear devices or are they too underrefined or too highly enriched to serve as a spacecraft powersource.<br /><br />I understand there are thousands in storage in New Mexico.

 

[najab]

Weapons-grade nuclear material is a high percentage of Pu-239, RTGs typically use the non-fissile Pu-238.