{"id":447,"date":"2006-11-04T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argee.net\/wordpress\/?p=447"},"modified":"2006-11-04T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T00:42:00","slug":"ch-01-the-rtg-fiasco-part-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Ch. 01 \u2013 The RTG Fiasco (Part 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 51px; height: 21px; overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"51\" data-show-faces=\"false\"><\/div><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447\" data-text=\"Ch. 01 \u2013 The RTG Fiasco (Part 10)\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_digg\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D447&amp;title=Ch.+01+%E2%80%93+The+RTG+Fiasco+%28Part+10%29\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/digg.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D447\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/reddit.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Submit to reddit\" title=\"Submit to reddit\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447\" data-text=\"Ch. 01 \u2013 The RTG Fiasco (Part 10)\" data-desc=\"This article is an excerpt from Chapter one in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts' Lies. You can find out more about the book here, and can order the book from this link. This is the tenth of eleven parts for Chapter one that will be presented here sequentially. Click here\" data-image=\"http:\/\/old.thedeadhand.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=33768\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><blockquote dir=ltr><p>\n<P><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><I><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=1>This article is an excerpt from Chapter one in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts&#8217; Lies. You can find out more about the book <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/chickenlittleagenda.com\/\"><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=1>here<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=1>, <\/FONT><\/I><\/SPAN><SPAN><I><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=1>and can order the book from this <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/chickenlittleagenda\/Sky5.htm\"><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=1>link<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=1>.<\/FONT><\/I><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=1> <\/FONT><\/SPAN><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=1><SPAN><I>This is the tenth of eleven parts for Chapter one that will be presented here sequentially. Click <\/I><\/SPAN><SPAN><I><A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/thrawnrickle.argee.net\/2006\/11\/03\/ch-01--the-green-revolution--antarctic-nuclear-madness-part-9-of-13.aspx\" target=_blank>here<\/A> <\/I><\/SPAN><SPAN><I>to read Part 9.<\/I><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3>Chapter 1<\/FONT><\/B><\/P><br \/>\n<P align=center><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Verdana>The Green Revolution<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/B><\/P><br \/>\n<P align=left><FONT size=3><FONT face=Verdana size=2><STRONG>The RTG Fiasco<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/FONT><\/SPAN><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>A radioisotope thermoelectric generator, RTG for short, is a small, very long lasting power source\u2014an outgrowth of the nuclear power program. About the size of a thermos bottle, it can supply useful power for very long periods of time. Because it has no moving parts, it is more reliable than most other power sources, and because it is not dependent upon any outside element, it can supply power where nothing else will work. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM8><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>RTGs are incredibly simple and safe. Certain sub&shy;stances are naturally radioactive\u2014the atoms of these substances spontaneously change from time to time into simpler substances. When these changes happen, one or more relatively high energy neutrons are released. Because of their high energy, these neutrons can be harmful to living matter, just as bullets or forcefully thrown rocks can be. This natural process of atomic change is called radioactive decay. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>One group of substances generates an especially large number of neutrons during this decay process\u2014 plutonium and some of its oxides. This is why plutoni&shy;um is used in nuclear explosives. When a sufficiently large amount of plutonium is concentrated in a special way, neutrons can be forced into a very rapid chain reaction where each neutron creates more neutrons, so that in a fraction of a second incredibly high ener&shy;gies are produced. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>Under normal circumstances this cannot happen. In an RTG, a small amount of plutonium dioxide (essentially plutonium rust), far less than the critical mass for a bomb or even that needed to sustain a reac&shy;tor, is placed inside a container designed to trap the emitted neutrons as heat. With the plutonium, a sim&shy;ple electrical device having no moving parts, called a thermocouple, produces electricity when it gets warm. Since the plutonium can produce heat for a hundred years or more, RTGs can produce electricity that long. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>RTGs are especially useful in deep space probes. Solar power could be used, of course, but the collector panels are less efficient, are subject to damage from external sources, and only work well near the sun. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>In the mid-1990s, several \u201cenvironmental\u201d groups expressed serious opposition to using RTGs in space. They publicly decried the \u201cdangers\u201d of nuclear energy, and they insisted on keeping space free of such \u201cdan&shy;gers.\u201d On one hand they seemed to know nothing of the true nature of the space environment: the sun is a continuously exploding hydrogen bomb millions of times the size of the whole Earth; our solar system is filled with high-energy particles, neutrons, cosmic rays\u2014at times it is like the inside of a nuclear reactor. Nothing humans could ever do would have the slight&shy;est effect on this environment. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>On the other hand, they seemed equally ignorant of the benign character of RTGs. The only possible risk from RTGs could be scattering the thimbleful or so of plutonium into the atmosphere. This is a non-problem for two reasons: RTGs are designed to withstand an uncontrolled return through Earth\u2019s atmosphere with&shy;out breaking up; and even if one did break up, the amount of plutonium is so small that it is extremely unlikely it could even be detected, let alone harm any&shy;body. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>The irony is that the focus of ULYSSES, the European Space Agency space probe these groups were objecting to, was solar variability and its effect on Earth\u2019s atmosphere, most notably the greenhouse effect. This is a crucial concern to everyone on Earth and a special interest to many environmental groups, including those protesting. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>Once again, in October 1997, anti-nuclear groups tried to prevent the \u201ccontamination of space with nuclear energy,\u201d this time objecting to the launching of the Saturn-bound CASSINI spacecraft. Scheduled for launch on October 6, 1997, CASSINI was powered by three medium-sized RTGs. Since this $3.4 billion spacecraft was scheduled to travel near Saturn, almost a billion miles from the sun, RTG power was unequivocally the best choice for this craft. Following its arrival in the vicinity of Saturn in 2004, CASSINI would study Saturn and its satellites for at least four years and parachute a small probe dubbed HUYGENS onto the surface of Saturn\u2019s largest moon, Titan. It was the twenty-fourth U.S. space mission to carry RTGs\u2014including the manned Apollo lunar landings. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>The problem here is not the twenty-three eminently successful prior RTG-powered missions, nor the CASSINI mission, but the incredible ignorance demon&shy;strated by the leadership of the anti-nuclear environ&shy;mental coalition that continues to resist these launches. Their legal interference in the launch of ULYSSES delayed its deployment and nearly doubled its cost. The same kind of legal mischief prior to CASSINI\u2019s launch in 1997 delayed that launch by about one and a half weeks. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>In a free society, even uninformed people have the right to express their opinions. The leaders of the anti&shy;nuclear environmental coalition have failed to educate themselves even to the most rudimentary level of knowledge regarding RTGs and the space environ&shy;ment. Fortunately, the courts recognized this failure in finding for NASA and the government. Unfortunately, the courts did not place responsibility for the financial cost of the proceedings and the subsequent launch delays where it belonged: Greenpeace, a coalition of Green parties, and other environmental groups.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><I><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>(Part 11 of 11 follows) <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/I><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT size=1>\u00a9 2006 \u2013 <\/FONT><\/SPAN><A href=\"http:\/\/argee.net\/\" target=_blank><SPAN><SPAN><FONT size=1>Robert G. Williscroft<\/FONT><\/SPAN> <\/SPAN><\/A><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><IMG height=1 src=\"http:\/\/old.thedeadhand.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=33768\" width=1><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 51px; height: 21px; overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"51\" data-show-faces=\"false\"><\/div><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447\" data-text=\"Ch. 01 \u2013 The RTG Fiasco (Part 10)\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_digg\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D447&amp;title=Ch.+01+%E2%80%93+The+RTG+Fiasco+%28Part+10%29\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/digg.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D447\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/reddit.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Submit to reddit\" title=\"Submit to reddit\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=447\" data-text=\"Ch. 01 \u2013 The RTG Fiasco (Part 10)\" data-desc=\"This article is an excerpt from Chapter one in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts' Lies. You can find out more about the book here, and can order the book from this link. This is the tenth of eleven parts for Chapter one that will be presented here sequentially. Click here\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p>This article is an excerpt from Chapter one in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts&#8217; Lies. You can find out more about the book here, and can order the book from this link. This is the tenth of eleven parts for Chapter one that will be presented here sequentially. 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