Sep 12 1989
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Antinuclear activists in Florida protested the launch aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis next month of the Galileo space probe, which would carry two plutonium-fueled radioisotope thermoelectric generators. The protesters claimed an accident aboard the Atlantis similar to the Challenger explosion could contaminate large parts of Florida and lead to hundreds of cancer-related deaths. NASA and the White House maintained that the chances of a plutonium leak in the event of an accident was negligible. Galileo was scheduled to reach Jupiter in late 1995. (AP, Sep 12/89; UPI, Sep 12/89; USA Today, Sep 13/89)
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