Henry –
You think Jimmy Carter was PRO-nuclear? He may have served on a sub, but he did nuclear no favors. He created the plutonium problem! We used to recycle plutonium into fuel for new reactors, but now we just put it in the storage pools. We could reduce nuclear waste drastically with the use of reprocessing, but Carter banned it.
You make plutonium sound like an insanely deadly poison, when in reality caffeine (from coffee) is similar in lethality. Plutonium is mostly dangerous on inhalation, after all, and you can stop that most of the radiation with a sheet of contact paper. The danger to the globe from plutonium is that people will fire the missiles and nuke cities, not give people plutonium poisoning.
As for your work in the nuclear industry, you seem to have a appalling lack of knowledge on nuclear waste. The key problems are the moderate half-life fission products like Cs-137 or Sr-90. Those are water soluble and highly radioactive, unlike plutonium. The higher transuranic elements also are rather more hazardous than plutonium.
