Schiff Amendment would provide resources to restart Plutonium-238 production for RTGs
Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2011
These small devices convert the heat generated by the radioactive decay of plutonium-238 is converted into electricity using solid-state thermoelectrics. (Pu-238 In the early 1990s, the US shut down Pu-238 production, and since then, the DOE has been using stockpiled material and material purchased from Russia to build these devices.
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