PLUTO-KUIPER NUCLEAR MISSION

Other Future Plutonium Missions
NASA Plans Another Dangerous Nuclear Launch Ad in Florida Today, Nov/Dec 2005 (400KB PDF file)
New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt Flyby from NASA
New Horizons - Shedding Light on Frontier Worlds - A Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission Study - from The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
RTG Capabilities and Costs - from NASA Office of Space Science - December 26 2000
AMPS - the alternative to RTGs have worked on smaller systems with much better energy output but are not considered for P-KB

Could NASA Get to Pluto Faster by Thinking Nuclear? - January 30 2006

Safety officials relived at launch - January 20 2006

Pluto New Horizons launch journal - January 2006

Press site warning for nuke safety - January 19 2006

NASA ready for the worst - January 17 2006

Anti-Nuke Activists Protest Pluto Mission - January 16 2006

Nuclear Powers NASA Visions - January 16 2006

New Horizons in Space, New Lows in Government - January 16 2006

NASA Debates Public Safety Of Pluto Launch - January 10 2006

Three dozen protest Pluto probe - January 8 2006

Activists hope to derail launch - January 7 2006

Protest New Horizons Launch - January 7 2006

Contact NASA: No Plutonium Launch - Cancel New Horizons - November 2 2005

Atlas fuel tank to be inspected in January for Pluto mission - December 20 2005

Pluto probe a bit closer to liftoff - December 18 2005

Plutonium Launch Accident could have Global Implications - December 12 2005

Union tells NASA to halt work on Pluto spacecraft - December 6 2005

Makng too little of plutonium - December 4 2005

Pluto Mission Comes With Risk - December 4 2005

Readers Discuss New Horizons Launch - December 4 2005

Remote Pluto getting its day in the sun - December 4 2005

Scientists take precautions with battery - December 4 2005

Boeing delivers stage for Pluto flight - December 1 2005

Boeing strikers staying put - November 23 2005

Non-union crew to finish Boeing booster - November 4 2005

Hearing set tonight on nuclear Pluto mission- March 29 2005

Public Hearings Set for Pluto Mission- March 22 2005

New Horizons Set To Launch With Minimum Amount of Plutonium- October 4 2004

NASA's Pluto Probe to be Delayed or Make Due With Less Power- August 6 2004

Pluto-Kuiper Mission Moves Ahead - April 11 2003

Race Against Time: Long Road to Pluto and Why We're Going - February 27 2003

Pluto mission gets green light at last - February 26 2003

Reminder of Notice of Reopening Public Comment Period for NASA Pluto-Kuiper Belt Plutonium Space Mission - July 18 2002

Federal Register Vol 67 No 120 - Dept of Energy Scoping Meetings for RTG Relocation EA - Notice of Extension of Comment Period - June 21 2002

Notice of Reopening Public Comment Period for NASA Pluto-Kuiper Belt Plutonium Space Mission - June 20 2002

Scoping Meetings for Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator Relocation EA - June 18 2002

Federal Register Vol 67 No 111 - National Environmental Policy Act Reopening of Scoping Period - June 10 2002

Federal Register Vol 67 No 105 - Dept of Energy Scoping Meetings for RTG Relocation EA - Notice of Intent - May 31 2002

NASA Takes Two Hundred Year Rain Check On Pluto - October 19 2000

NASA Stops Work on Mission to Mysterious Pluto - September 22 2000

Pluto-Kuiper Mission - November 14 1998