File:Plutonium pellet.jpg
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English: Plutonium-238 pellet under its own light. Pu-238, with a half-life of 87.7 years, is being used in space applications requiring a power source with a long service life. Pu-238 has a relatively high heat production rate which makes it useful as a power source. As a power and heat source, Pu-238 has also been used to power instruments left on the Moon by Apollo astronauts, navigation and weather satellites, and interplanetary probes. The interplanetary probe Pioneer-10, powered by a Pu-238 source, recently left the solar system. Image ID: 2006407 |
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| Source | http://www.doedigitalarchive.doe.gov/ImageDetailView.cfm?ImageID=2006407&page=search&pageid=thumb |
| Author | Department of Energy |
These pellets are used for radioisotope thermoelectric generators. They are made of PuO2.
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| current | 19:49, 10 January 2009 | | 3,200 × 2,560 (2.16 MB) | wikimediacommons>Fastfission~commonswiki | Reverted to version as of 22:17, 8 August 2006 |
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