Schiff Amendment would provide resources to restart Plutonium-238 production for RTGs
Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2011
In the early 1990s, the US shut down Pu-238 production, and since then, the DOE has been using stockpiled material and material purchased from Russia to build these devices. Google Tech Talk: Save the Uranium-233 to Save Solar System Exploration (January 2011). Pu-238 has a half-life of 87 years.) Source: Kirk Sorensen.
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