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Solarsail | 7 years ago
The UK's NNL prototyped out a process for volume manufacture of Am-241 in 2013. http://www.nnl.co.uk/news-media-centre/news-archive/space-ba... And a few notes about the Americium-RTG effort more generally: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2015/0423-can-a-n...
NASA has also studied use of solar power beyond Jupiter's orbit: (PDF link) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/nov_2007_meeting/presentations...
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