Cosmic Queries – The Future of the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab with Laurie Leshin
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The NIF Team Up at Livermore
We use radioactive things like plutonium that actually produce energy when they split apart into other atoms. And we, in fact, use it extensively. Mars rovers use it. We use it out beyond Jupiter. You really can't do solar power. But wait, but you're getting that energy a little bit for free because the plutonium naturally decays. So now, but with a fusion, it seems like you got to get that to happen. Yeah.
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