No doubt nuclear recycling and waste disposal is no piece of cake. But it has one sterling virtue over fossil fuels: We know exactly where the waste products are, and they're locked up tight. It isn't being dumped into the air, and into slag piles, getting into lungs and the environment by the megaton each year.

Remember that fatality chart I posted.

And that's not even mentioning global warming.

Might be worth a little extra effort.

Keep in mind that there are many, many industrial processes that involve lethal materials or hazardous environments that have to be worked with protective gear, isolation, or even remote controls. Heck, I spent weeks watching robots fix and oil well at the bottom of the sea. You should see the system they had at the old solid fuel rocket plant down south for mixing and loading propellants.