Time to fire up those breeder reactors.

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Deep space probes beyond Jupiter can't use solar power because they're too far from the sun. So they rely on a certain type of plutonium, plutonium-238. It powers these spacecraft with the heat of its natural decay.

NASA is having problems now since the end of the cold war we've stopped producing any plutonium.

There are those who are concerned about blasting nuclear fuel into space on rockets that have a dismal safety track record (2 of the last 125 shuttle missions blew up - not a good ratio - imagine if your car did that!)

Curt runs a resource management software company in Texas

Curt Finch

Curt Finch has more than two decades of software development and distributed workforce management experience. In 1997, Curt created the world's first internet-based timesheet application and the foundation for the current Journyx product offering. Curt has a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. His book, All Your Money, is available on Amazon.