UPDATED with video from Picasso Dreams (scroll down) and Little Mr. Pluto ( thanks A13 ). Nuclear mascots of Japan: Little Mr. Pluto. "But an animated video used in educational materials included a widely criticized scene showing Little Mr. PU shaking hands with a boy who safely downs a plutonium-tainted beverage to make the debatable point the substance would pass through a body without doing harm." http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/29/the-lighter-side-of-plutonium/ We have entered the auto-didactic age. Today we offer a quick lesson on Plutonium. Plutonium is a very dangerous radioactive material that some smart scientists discovered in 1941. Breathing in Plutonium particles is not advised. One of the brilliant scientists tragically died from cancer in his early forties. Plutonium explainer Officials have detected plutonium in multiple locations around Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear facility. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said in a statement th...