What Is Plutonium and How Is It Used in Spacecraft?

Radiation or radioactivity is one of the scariest words in the English language. While radiation can indeed be very dangerous, most people don’t really understand how it works and it is often treated as magic death cooties which leads to unwarranted fear. Learn more about radiation, how it works, and where it’s found in nature, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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