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Apparently, the rate of production is enough for just one deep-space mission per decade.

Could we not reprocess uranium into plutonium from commercial reactors to recycle the waste and use that for space probes?

238Pu is only efficiently manufactured by activating 237Np.

If any nuclear material could be easily turned into any other nuclear material, life would be so much easier, and nuclear waste would be much less of a problem. ;)

well, they have one to use half a decade from now (2020), two more in reserve, and per your statement, they can make one per decade. Seems they are doing fine!

We changed the title to the last sentence of the article, which seems to make its point more neutrally. If anyone suggests a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.

it's not a linkbait title, it's a really weird one (mixing registers/i.e. level of formality.) It sounds like someone setting their foot down, informally.