The NIF Team Up at Livermore

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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.

Could there be life under the icy surface of Europa? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice explore interplanetary missions, asteroid mining, and other exciting launches with the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Leshin.

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