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Russia’s Approach to Nuclear Power in Outer Space Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 92 (source: news.rambler.ru) Russia has been conducting research and development (R&D) on using nuclear power in outer space for years. On May 22, Alexander Bloshenko, executive director for advanced programs and science of Roscosmos, announced that the first mission of the nuclear-powered spacecraft, also known as the transport and energy module (TEM), is scheduled for 2030 (TASS, May 22). A week before this announcement, there was a deliberate leak from the Keldysh Center, a Roscosmos su...

The US scientific research enterprise is completely intertwined with US global hegemony.

You have to read through this article - about  ''a major advance'' - very carefully -   to see that nothing much is really happening.   You have to get to the end of the article  =to learn how very dangerous is this plan.    Of course there;'s no mention that (A) the whole thing…

Biden okays program to annually build 80 plutonium ‘pit’ H-bomb triggers Lucky once, we can't count on luck again... It’s hard to believe I’m writing this, but the Biden administration, while unwinding or reversing a good many rules, regulations and programs of the Trump administration, is forging ahead with one particularly outrageous one: the ramping up of production of so-called plutonium “pits.” These cores of the man-made radioactive element plutonium, each weighing a few pounds, serve as small atomic bombs on their own of the size used on Hiroshima and Naga...

By Dave LINDORFF It’s hard to believe I’m writing this, but the Biden administration, while unwinding or reversing a good many rules, regulations and programs…