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Heard of the uranium one deal that gave russia control over a huge swath of uranium. it didnt allow uranium to be exported from this country. >> uranium doesnt leave the united states without getting an export license. >> they have no export license and thats the whole point. >> i havent heard anyone say you made it anywhere. >> its not like they can do whatever they want with it. >> tucker: actually they can and they did. a new report revealed what they did for a while. they approved the export...

Nuclear machine. attend of the day, very, very clearly, they did not dismantle the one centrifuge, the enriched uranium doesnt come out, they have a plutonium facility. so the iranians have the industrial infrastructure that they built is absolutely there and in six months they can continue and reach a situation where we wont be a able to stop iran from making a bomb. >> the other countries that agree with the united states and went forward with this publicly have to say that they were for it. b...

Nuclear machine. attend of the day, very, very clearly, they did not dismantle the one centrifuge, the enriched uranium doesnt come out, they have a plutonium facility. so the iranians have the industrial infrastructure that they built is absolutely there and in six months they can continue and reach a situation where we wont be a able to stop iran from making a bomb. >> the other countries that agree with the united states and went forward with this publicly have to say that they were for it. b...

Not talked about on the show. it is scary-sounding, but it is worth understanding, and it is understandable even if you do not have a scientifically minded mind. all right. so the fuel rods are 12-foot-long skinny pieces of metal. they are straws in essence, right? the fuel is actually stacked inside these straws, little tootsie roll-like pellets of uranium. as the fuel rods get too hot, the metal starts to break down, what happens to those pellets? well, if all goes well, maybe the pellets fuse...

The uranium doesnt stay in those orderly rods, it gets into a big single molten pile. youve heard the term "critical mass," right? it is dramatic sounding when youre talking about bike protests. it is actually dramatic when you talk about where that term comes from. if the uranium melting down in a spent fuel pool or reactor is allowed to melt down completely and become one giant molten mass, tepco admitted this week that it is possible that nuclear fission could start again. they call that crit...

What happens to those pellets? well, if all goes well, maybe the pellets fuse together in the shape they were being held in inside those metal straws. maybe they stay in an orderly little stack of tootsie rolls. if all does not go well, those stacks of pellets collapse and the uranium doesnt stay in those orderly rods, it gets into a big single molten pile. youve heard the term "critical mass," right? it is dramatic sounding when youre talking about bike protests. it is actually dramatic when yo...