guffaw of the week (and we NEED one this week...)

U.S. considers plutonium space rockets

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/0...ion=cnn_latest

Friday, September 2, 2005; Posted: 11:49 a.m. EDT (15:49 GMT)

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) -- The United States is poised to produce plutonium-238 for the first time since the end of the Cold War but it will be used for space missions, not weapons, officials said this week.