Oh one little snag: that reprocessed fuel for the 2nd gen reactors I referred to? It's plutonium. You know, the kind you use to make bombs and really awesome sp

Oh one little snag: that reprocessed fuel for the 2nd gen reactors I referred to? It's plutonium. You know, the kind you use to make bombs and really awesome spacecraft. If we actually started doing that you might end up with a plutonium economy, where there are well guarded warehouses and armored transports full of this stuff. Then anybody with an extremely specialized remote operated machine shop for shaping explosive lenses, having insanely accurate detonators, and the balls to brazenly steal the most well guarded commodity in existence might be able to build a bomb! One big enough to take out a few city blocks! We can't have that, obviously. No, better that we just stockpile this stuff in rusting metal bins.