Few Words on Nuclear Batteries

Space exploration such as Moon, Mars and beyond require many years of planning and consume millions. In the last decades private space explorations increased. They have one major drawback, access to high energy nuclear batteries. Seeing such missions fail because the solar panel was blocked is unacceptable. High efficiency high power nuclear batteries use Plutonium or similar weapon grade radioactive material. As a result, such research should be restricted only to government agencies. I propose the government agencies to keep developing high power nuclear batteries to serve as a solid backup or as a major energy source for deep space missions. It would be nice if these batteries would have standardized dimensions. When a nuclear battery is developed, a test model of it running on chemical batteries should also be developed. This would enable the private companies to develop their designs and test them safely. Once the design is finalized, the nuclear battery would be brought by the government officials and mounted on the device. The officials would also guard the final design until the launch day.