space.com popular Nov 23, 11 01:45 am — For 50 years, NASA has used plutonium-238 as the fuel source for unmanned spacecraft to study planets and other objects in the outer solar system, but stockpiles of this radioactive material are running dry.
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It's like having a car and no gasoline in the car," said Ralph McNutt, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory and a project scientist for NASA's Messenger mission to Mercury. Americans, Mcnutt is just that -- Buy Arab Oil and you will always have gasoline for the car. Otherwise, once you locate the nuke test waste in Iraq you will have plenty of the Plutonium you are looking for. I have told you where the plutonium was, however, I would have to kill you.