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pwokenyaw — 4/26/2005 3:22:34 PM (archived)

I think NEP uses uranium, which is less dangerous than plutonium. NEP mostly seems a waste of money though until we get serious about a Neptune mission. I think this moon mission concept is just a Bush Administration attempt to pretend all the money spent on Prometheus/JIMO so far didn't just go down a rat hole.

Despite the repeated alarms on this website about environmental opposition to RTGs, I can say as an environmental lawyer that it doesn't register within the environmental movement. Comment period on the New Horizons DEIS closed several weeks ago. How much did you hear about it from anti-nuclear opponents? I searched the web for substantive comment letters and didn't find any, just a few statements of opposition. Those don't create the basis for a lawsuit to tie up the mission, and there's no political furor either.

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Some gossip about Prometheus / JIMO - Gary - 4/26/2005 4:15:56 AM
- I hate to be a wet blanket... - R.L. - 4/26/2005 5:24:19 AM
  - Wasn't much of a fight. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/26/2005 8:04:14 PM
    - NASA spent heaps of money to preempt the anti-Cassini bozos - Gary - 4/27/2005 5:58:39 AM
      - re: federal door stop factories - dtb - 4/27/2005 1:20:04 PM
      - re: federal door stop factories - dtb - 4/27/2005 1:20:01 PM
  - The best flagship mission for Prometheus... - Buck Galaxy - 4/26/2005 5:09:50 PM
    - Exactly. I posted a similar proposal, months ago. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 4/27/2005 6:00:29 PM
  - re: I hate to be a wet blanket... - Keith Cowing - 4/26/2005 5:47:23 AM
    - re: I hate to be a wet blanket... - dtb - 4/26/2005 1:19:22 PM
      - Trust me- I have seen it happen - R.L. - 4/27/2005 5:54:50 AM
        
        re: Trust me- I have seen it happen - Keith Cowing - 4/27/2005 1:46:33 PM
      - I don't know... - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2005 4:23:43 PM
      - Prometheus is political - Gary - 4/26/2005 3:42:58 PM
        
        PR and a little pork barrel for the nuclear power industry - pwokenyaw - 4/27/2005 3:28:21 AM
        
        re: both seem plausible - dtb - 4/27/2005 1:15:02 PM
        
        re: Prometheus is political - McFly - 4/27/2005 2:59:54 AM
      - re: I hate to be a wet blanket... - pwokenyaw - 4/26/2005 3:22:34 PM
        
        re: I hate to be a wet blanket... - Chris Vancil - 4/26/2005 11:44:22 PM
        
        ? MER's Are Solar Powered Not Nuclear Powered - Mark Eby - 4/28/2005 2:03:07 AM
        
        re: ? MER's Are Solar Powered Not Nuclear Powered - keith Cowing - 4/28/2005 2:22:23 AM
        
        re: ? MER's Are Solar Powered Not Nuclear Powered - Chris Vancil - 4/28/2005 10:04:21 PM
        
        MERs and New Horizons - pwokenyaw - 4/29/2005 5:18:59 PM
        
        re: MERs and New Horizons - Chris Vancil - 4/29/2005 9:20:10 PM
        
        Sorry Chris, Thanks Keith - Mark Eby - 4/29/2005 1:58:38 AM
        
        Actually there are other radioactive... - Chris Vancil - 4/30/2005 1:22:15 AM
        
        Actually there are other radioactive... - Chris Vancil - 4/30/2005 1:22:11 AM
        
        re: I hate to be a wet blanket... - pwokenyaw - 4/27/2005 3:30:28 AM

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