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Space agencies tackle waning plutonium supplies
URL: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/09rtg/
Submitted: Fri Jul 09 2010
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While NASA is counting on an act of Congress or a renegotiated deal with Russia to acquire plutonium for its next robotic deep space missions, the European Space Agency is considering alternative nuclear fuels to power its own probes traveling into the sun-starved outer solar system.