This is a pack of lies. That is completely at odds with the nationally-aired DOE spokesperson's lies. Furthermore in the June 1997 SIES, NASA expects that at least 1.7 out of 54 GPHS units will incinerate in the upper atmosphere in a reentry accident, resulting in several pounds of plutonium dioxide being released. Beverly Cook is a liar. September 9th, 1997.
Plutonium is highly toxic.
If inhaled or ingested in even minute amounts it can cause death by cancer. Still the Energy Department which makes the plutonium batteries say they are safe even during a catastrophic failure like this Delta II explosion seconds after liftoff in January. If there is an explosion in the launch there is absolutely no conditions that would result in a release of plutonium in the air. She does not oversimplify. She does not exaggerate the safety or underestimate the danger.