The Senate Appropriations Committee passed this week its 2012 energy and water appropriations bill, which includes funding for the Department of Energy (DOE). Senate appropriators, though, decided not to fund the administration’s request for $15 million for DOE to restart production of plutonium-238 (Pu-238), an isotope used in radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) for NASA science [...]
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