You don't need Pu238 for deep sea *exploration*. | Hacker News

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		masklinn on Sept 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Expl... You don't need Pu238 for deep sea exploration.

pintglass on Sept 20, 2013 [–]

I wouldn't rule that out. Why wouldn't it make a great undersea battery?

Also, if we found Apollo 13 we could recover some Pu238:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/28/1637231/will-nasa...

http://unexplainedthings.tumblr.com/post/13563685365/will-na...

masklinn on Sept 20, 2013 | [–]

It would, but you don't need it because you don't need years or decades of power at high depths.

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