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What’s the fuel supply that’s going to keep this thing running for two years?

7 posted on 08/07/2012 3:22:07 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

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It’s nuclear powered!

9 posted on 08/07/2012 3:45:36 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)

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To: houeto

http://nuclear.gov/pdfFiles/MMRTG.pdf

10 posted on 08/07/2012 3:48:40 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)

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To: houeto

What’s the fuel supply that’s going to keep this thing running for two years?

Plutonium. Similar system to the original Viking landers back in the 1970s.

15 posted on 08/07/2012 4:33:18 PM PDT by af_vet_rr

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To: houeto

It’s nuclear powered. Cool, huh!

16 posted on 08/07/2012 4:46:08 PM PDT by TheOldLady

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A nuclear “battery” using Plutonium 238.

23 posted on 08/07/2012 6:26:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

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