Obama giving go ahead for Georgia nuke

[kandrathe]

I agree with the rest of your statement, but this bit is just a common misconception.

I actually wasn't thinking of plutonium... More the short half life (>5 years & < 30 years), high alpha emitting isotopes (e.g. Cesium137, Stontium90), most sites let the spent fuel chill for some number of years to ensure the most dangerous isotopes have become spent. The most active stuff has half-life in the < 10 days.