Not going to go very far if you don’t.
How does this contribute to peace?
(leftist viewpoint)
Gee. We used to call them RTGs. Seems they always bring out the fence climbers when someone announces using one.
Yeah.
Great idea.
Let’s shoot a rocket with a nuke on it at Mars.
Next thing you know, Martians blowing fog horns and riding around in big, three legged metal stools grabbing people with Tom Cruise looking perplexed.
No thank you.
U238 in short supply? Ask Iran or the Norks.
Two plus decades ago, a friend and co-worker were at his farmette on a weekend afternoon and he was showing me interesting stuff he had in his barn including a few 50’s and 60’s sports cars in various stages of disassembly and then he pulled out this steam punk looking hemisphere a little larger than half a bowling ball made of a dullish grey metal. It must have weighed 50 pounds and he told me to guess what it was. I was stymied and he told me that he took it from work as a souvenir. He worked for Martin Aerospace in the 50’s and the piece was half of a shield for the plutonium power plant that was used in our first satellites. Nothing new under the sun.
It’s completely ridiculous that this was ever even in question.
The mission to Titan could have been a much better one with the Plutonium power source. All those years wasted on a lesser mission. Shame.