To: Chad C. Mulligan
Voyager’s plutonium power source is slowly dying, too.
4 posted on
05/31/2024 2:59:49 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Voyagers Plutonium is slowly dying You are correct but they use Plutonium 238 with a half life of 24,065 years. Its plutonium power source is still almost 100%. The space probe will fail due to other reasons long before the power source fails. Plutonium is the power source for the heat, themocouples are what make the electricity and not one moving part in the power source nor thermocouples.
29 posted on
05/31/2024 7:37:51 PM PDT by
cpdiii
(cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Not dying, just transforming into isotopes of lighter elements like uranium, neptunium, americium, and eventually lead.
30 posted on
05/31/2024 7:42:43 PM PDT by
steve86
(Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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