Thursday Night Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on September 2, 2005 at 2:34:48 AM
I'm off to AC tomorrow and that means no news tomorrow.
These people should be shot and killed. Looting is one thing, shooting at evacuees is another. I think all criminals in that disaster should be taken down.
Nulcear space batteries.
The probe using a space battery.
These people should be shot and killed. Looting is one thing, shooting at evacuees is another. I think all criminals in that disaster should be taken down.
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He described scenes of lawlessness and desperation, with people simply dragging corpses into corners. "They have quite a few people running around here with guns," he said. "You got these young teenage boys running around up here raping these girls." Elsewhere, groups of armed men wandered the streets, buildings smoldered and people picked through stores for what they could find. Charity Hospital, one of several facilities attempting to evacuate patients, was forced to halt the effort
Nulcear space batteries.
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Under the $300 million plan, the Idaho National Laboratory would produce 11 pounds (5 kg) of plutonium-238 a year for 30 years starting in 2011. The non-weapons-grade plutonium is used to power everything from satellites to deep space probes, leading industry insiders to call the finished product "space batteries."
The probe using a space battery.
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Before New Horizons heads for Pluto, however, yet another crucial milestone must be met: Approval to use a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), the nuclear power source that provides the electrical energy to operate the spacecraft’s mechanical and electronic systems in the cold darkness of deep space. Any mission that plans to use an RTG undergoes a safety analysis carried out by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE). In addition to the DoE review, an ad hoc Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel (INSRP) – supported by experts from government, industry and academia -- is involved as part of a Presidential nuclear safety launch approval process to evaluate the safety analysis report prepared by DoE.