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By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
May 8, 2009
WASHINGTON — NASA is running out of nuclear fuel needed for its deep space exploration.
The end of the Cold War’s nuclear weapons buildup means that the U.S. space agency does not have enough plutonium for future faraway space probes — except for a few missions....
