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Apr 27, 2017 - Cassini with its 72.3 pounds of Plutonium-238 fuel was launched on a Titan ... Cape Canaveral from which Cassini was to be launched, Dr. Michio Kaku, ... The worst accident involving space nuclear power occurred in 1964 ...
Sep 13, 2017 - Cassini's instruments aren't particularly power-hungry, drawing around 600-700 ... the stuff we use to make nuclear weapons, and has a half life of 88 years. .... So despite Kaku's continued complaints to MoJo -- "This is a ...
Sep 30, 1997 - Plus: What Goes Up Does Come Down: If Cassini's nuclear cargo comes ... says Michio Kaku, a professor of nuclear physics at the City University of New York, ... But it needs that power for the length of the mission: 11 years.
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Goodbye NASA's
Cassini Spacecraft
& Hello nuclear
Saturn Ignition!
Cassini Spacecraft
& Hello nuclear
Saturn Ignition!
thornews
YouTube - Apr 29, 2017
1:09:40
Michio Kaku:
Opposition to
NASA's Cassini
Space Probe
(1997)
Opposition to
NASA's Cassini
Space Probe
(1997)
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Feb 2, 2001 - Anti-nuclear activists are pleased the plans to send a deep-space ... Cassini's power source for its 11-years-or-more mission was 73 pounds of plutonium. ... Michio Kaku, a physics professor at City College of New York and ...
Mar 12, 2014 - ... Kaku has been actively opposed to the use of nuclear energy for at ... (RTGs) to provide a steady flow of power to the Cassini spacecraft.
Oct 4, 1997 - The Cassini rocket will be powered by 72 pounds of plutonium -- the ... of central Florida," said Michio Kaku, a protesting physics professor from New York. ... NASA uses solar power for most projects, including the Mir Space ...
Jump to Anti-nuclear batshittery - Kaku has a history of rather hysteric anti-nuclear views. ... and organized protests against the launch of the Cassini probe on the ... involving spacecraft carrying nuclear power sources happened in the ...
Jan 27, 2003 - NASA's expanded focus on nuclear power in space "is not only ... unwise," says Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of nuclear physics at the City University of New York. ... In 1997 NASA launched the Cassini space probe carrying 72 ...
Viewpoint: Yes, using plutonium as an energy source for Cassini carried only minimal ... The development, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons has been one of the ..... However, Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City ...