Date published: 2005/03/09
The BBC says:
The US space agency (Nasa) is progressing with ambitious plans to explore the Solar System using nuclear power.
Their hope, eventually, is to use electricity generated by nuclear power to propel a space probe and power its instruments on a voyage to the icy moons of Jupiter, satellites that just possibly might harbour life beneath their ice.
Before then, nuclear technology could be proved with a less ambitious mission, perhaps a nuclear-powered probe to the Moon.
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Many space scientists agree that nuclear power is the only viable way of exploring the outer Solar System.
Would you trust NASA not to have a rocket blow up in the atmosphere and spread nuclear material everywhere? Then again, that might be the best thing that ever happened to Florida.
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