Michio Kaku makes a living off of pushing this ant-nuke thing. It's not clear Kaku wrote the opinion piece at SpaceDaily.com

Whoever wrote the Op-ed made several mistaken statements.

**During the 1950s and 1960s NASA spent over $10 billion to build the nuclear rocket program which was canceled in the end because of the fear that a launch accident would contaminate major portions of Florida and beyond. **

Nerve was not shutdown over concerns of radiation poisoning of anykind. They ran out of money and no more was forth coming.

**During the Cassini RTG fabrication process at Los Alamos 244 cases of worker contamination were reported to the DoE.**

As I understand it non of these "contaminations" where life threatening and non had anything to do with Cassini's RTGs.

I think these and the others false statements are intentional and misleading lies.

--Chris Vancil