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Old February 22nd 04, 05:45 AM
Scott Lowther
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Default CNN article about nuclear power on space probes

quibbler wrote:

I'd think that you'd have to be very far from the sun or
doing fairly exotic things before an RTG only approach would be the best
or the cheapest.


General rule of thumb is... Mars is PV, Jupiter is nuke. Trade off in
the asteroids.

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