This time of year is pumpkin season in our home, and recently my 3-year-old and I were cooking up a frenzy — pumpkin soup, pumpkin-mango spring rolls, cheddar-pecan pumpkin scones — when suddenly he realized the mess we’d made.

“Mama, we did not clean up our mess!” he shouted while I bit into a steaming hunk of scone. “That was NOT KIND!”

In preschool, my son has been learning what it means to be a good classmate: Be kind, be respectful, clean up your mess. Even at his age, already he’s realizing that these principles also are guideposts for being a good human.

So why is the state of Utah considering allowing radioactive waste from Canada to be shipped to and disposed of — a.k.a., stored in perpetuity — in Tooele County?

As a pediatrician and parent, I am concerned about this unusual p

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