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Mars rover mission will use pioneering nuclear power source (www.nature.com)

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Can I ask how everyone personally feels about using nuclear material for space exploration? For the rovers heating elements it will be just a couple of grams but for generating electricity via a RTG a spacecraft would require several kilograms of radioactive material.

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[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Exactly, for its intended use, it's really the best option we have.

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