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Author: Chengyue Liu

Celebrating Cassini: The Ethics of Plutonium Energy

Posted on September 7, 2017September 8, 2017 by Chengyue Liu, Jian Yu, Yueqin Li and Makoto Hibino

When Cassini was being designed in the 1980s, an innovative plutonium energy source was developed to sustain it’s long journey. A source that would and still does carry considerable ethical considerations.

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