It's still way too hot to go near, they say. So they leave it for a rainy day, but it won't go away. If the Cassini probe survives reentry it could devastate an area as big as any city, making it uninhabitable instantly for thousands of years. 72 pounds of black rain would decimate the land for miles and miles in every direction. It is vital that these facts be understood by everyone in modern society.
Modern civilization manipulates poisons and chemicals that cause problems all the time.
Substances causing everything from diarrhea to death in minutes are regularly transported, used, and stored throughout the world. And breathed and ingested, I might add. But plutonium is worse, far worse. For one thing, plutonium does not exist in nature. Every ounce of plutonium in existence is man-made.