NASA Restarts Plutonium Production 139
Celarent Darii writes "In what looks like good news for the American Space program, NASA has restarted production of plutonium. According to the article, after the closure of Savannah Rivers reactor NASA purchased plutonium from Russia, but since 2010 this was no longer possible. The native production of plutonium is a step forward for the space program to achieve the energy density for long term space exploration."
I wonder (Score:5, Funny)
if Iran will impose sanctions on the United States...
When will you finally.... (Score:5, Funny)
.... make up your mind?
You used to produce Plutonium and you saw it was good. But then man got greedy and raced upward to the skies and eat from the forbidden fruit. And complicated-gdp-involving-economy-formula was not happy and it convinced you that it was bad. And Plutonium was no more, Savannah Rivers dropped the Rivers and became a p0rn5tar and the fallen from grace NASA purchased plutonium from Russia. Now there is what looks like good news, the saviour will be born, the native plutonium-producer child of NASA. A step forward for the space program to achieve the energy density for long space exploration. After a jump backward, sort of.
I wish we just got rid of the jumps backward.
Re:I Think We All Know the Real Reason..... (Score:5, Funny)
Nonsense. NASA wouldn't want to go backwards now, not when they're on the verge of building their very own rocket that can take men into space!
If Pluto is no longer a planet... (Score:1, Funny)
is Plutonium still considered an atom?
Re:As Seen On TV (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe if NASA is really good Santa will bring them some plutonium.
Good? They cut down Pluto until it was a dwarf, and now are making this 'plutonium' which I can only assume is made from Pluto's corpse...
They'll be getting coal, indeed. Or something to power an RTG. One of the two.
Re:Why do this when... (Score:5, Funny)
/ducks
Re:As Seen On TV (Score:5, Funny)
Because they demoted Pluto, NASA only gets dwarfium now.