How did they manage to get Obama to sell out on Nukes?

On most environmental issues, I'll listen closely and openly to the other side of the story, but there are three issues that I have a difficult time providing slack to.  These are water fluoridation, nuclear power, and the (current) biotechnology industry.  Water fluoridation is a hidden issue protected by layers of pseudo-scientific evidence and tacit public acceptance in the USA and a few other countries; nuclear power is protected by historical subsidies and, lately, green re-branding; and biotechnology, which has potential if carried out responsibly, is sold as a high-tech solution to solving our moral responsibility to the hungry of the world.

Without going into the details, here's a few vignettes to create curiosity in the subjects:

a. If fluoridated water is supposed to help our teeth, why do we fluoridate entire municipal water systems, which is an expensive practice mind you, when 99% of that water will go onto our lawns, down our toilets, showers and sinks, and into our washing machines?

b. Would you learn to live in a world that only contained green granny smith apples? A similar dilemma faces anyone from the tropics who goes looking for bananas in a grocery store in the West.  In an export industry that has been entirely captured by industry, the world of export bananas (thousands are held at the ITC in Belgium, as one example) has been distilled to the Cavendish variety (and formerly, the Gros Michel).  The biotechnology industry (for crops) is much more threatening, as it aims to reduce diversity not just in export-crops (like the Cavendish has done) but for local crops, all with the risk of transferring unwanted genetic material to native crops.

c. It is a testament to the nuclear energy industry's marketing abilities that an uneconomical energy source born of Cold War-era subsidies (which, to an extent, they've largely maintained) is now a contender for flashy new 'sustainable energy' subsidies by Barack Obama.  It doesn't take much investigating to discover that nukes do not bring us any closer to solving the green house gas issue, but they do bring us closer to nuclear weapons proliferation, taxpayer moral hazard, and radioactive pollution.  There may yet be hope for nukes in the way of fusion power, but fission has simply got to go.  The following video is right to the point and addresses some of the "myths"

http://www.blip.tv/file/3946822