Friday, March 15, 2013

NASA Restarts Plutonium Production

Hi, this is the parent of this particular topic parent which I started replying too:

If the vehicle burns up on launch or explodes at a low altitude there goes the county, launch facility, what have you.
If it burn up in the upper atmosphere perhaps world wide cancer rates double or there goes any thing where the jet stream stears the fallout event for the next 6 months or so. So just saying... great for the space program though... parse... parse... ; )

See how we're talking about rockets there? See how the general article is talking about plutonium for RTG use.

Now all those things being apparent, can you perhaps see how a discussion on a very complex scenario where we intentionally try to make plutonium oxide burn is irrelevant - except - as I pointed out - if a rocket was actually using thousands of kilos of fluorine-based propellant. Which, as your link points out, they

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/7VlGFWoRxS8/story01.htm

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