ORNL automates key process in plutonium-238 production
Abstract
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have automated part of the process of producing plutonium-238, which is used by NASA to fuel deep space exploration. Resolving this key bottleneck will help boost annual production of the radioisotope towards NASA’s goal of 1.5 kilograms of Pu-238 per year by 2025.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1635634
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 07 ISOTOPE AND RADIATION SOURCES; PLUTONIUM-238; PLUTONIUM; NASA; DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION; SPACECRAFT; SASSINI; CURIOSITY ROVER; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; RADIOISOTOPE
Citation Formats
. ORNL automates key process in plutonium-238 production. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web.
. ORNL automates key process in plutonium-238 production. United States.
. Tue .
"ORNL automates key process in plutonium-238 production". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1635634.
@article{osti_1635634,
title = {ORNL automates key process in plutonium-238 production},
author = {},
abstractNote = {Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have automated part of the process of producing plutonium-238, which is used by NASA to fuel deep space exploration. Resolving this key bottleneck will help boost annual production of the radioisotope towards NASA’s goal of 1.5 kilograms of Pu-238 per year by 2025.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Tue Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}