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Nature 421, 881 (27 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421881a
NASA pins hopes on nuclear-powered orbiter
Tony Reichhardt
Daring, scientifically rewarding but fraught with technical and political risk. That's the way many space scientists view a proposed nuclear-powered Jupiter mission that would be the most capable — and probably the most expensive — planetary spacecraft ever launched by NASA.
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