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Take a look at what must be done to help todays children excel in the classroom at noon eastern here on "msnbc sunday." irans only atomic power plant set to start up this week thanks to fuel provided by russia. the uranium loaded into the reabouter on saturday and if it all goes according to plan, the plant will be providing electricity in about a month from now. im joined by ali, an international policy analyst at the rand corporation. good morning. im glad youre here. >> good morning. thanks...

Look, this is a great victory, this is a great victory for iranian technology but that may take pressure off them and give them room to be more flexible on issues we care about, like enrichment. >> in jim walshs view, this is not necessarily the bad thing we think it is on the face of it. >> shepard: what about anything likely to stop the plant from going on line or is this a done deal? >> its pretty much a done deal. although jim walsh also pointed out these are iranians and russians. weve hear...

So while they may be applying a little more pressure to the russians privately, publicly at least, shep, they are say nothing problem here. >> shepard: can we know definitively whether this is putting the iranians any closer to the possibility of having a nuclear weapon? >> in a sense, anything that puts them on the path to nuclear power also puts them on the path to the possibility of nuclear weapons. experts point out that the uranium fuel they will be getting is very, very low level enriched ...

Investigating going on. >> what about the millions sloshing around before the 2016 election? >> martha: thank you very much, zach and charlie, good to see you both. more to come on that. now to talk about the national security applications and also what happened this week with isis, general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war. also a fox news military analyst, good to have you here tonight. i do want to talk to you about isis and what comes next after the fall of raqqa. wh...

Saying its the economy, stupid. its a mistake. >> dave: interesting. >> alisyn: what do you think? who gets to claim the national security high ground. in the meantime, lets talk about national security as relates to iran and the united states is basically saying that this moment right now is the last chance for iran. theyre not saying-- >> again. >> dave: right. >> alisyn: theyre not saying exactly what that means, but if these stricter sanctions dont work and iran doesnt come to the table and ...

Them. they are hot. they are also radio actively hot, too. once those things at three mile island were not being cooled by water, once they heated to a couple thousand degrees fahrenhehd, the metal tubes holding the pellets started to breakdown. when the temperature got even hotter, the uranium fuel itself started to meltdown. melting fuel rods like that can release a ton of radioactivity. they are radioactive, that is on purpose. thats how they make nuclear power. when they breakdown, they rele...

Tubes with pellets of uranium in them. they are hot. they are also radioactively hot, too. once those things at three mile island were not being cooled by water, once they heated to a couple thousand degrees fahrenheit, the metal tubes holding the pellets started to breakdown. when the temperature got even hotter, the uranium fuel itself started to meltdown. melting fuel rods like that can release a ton of radioactivity. they are radioactive, that is on purpose. thats how they make nuclear power...

Even when we think nuclear risk, like when its joked about on "the simpsons" with that nuclear plant that looms over everything in springfield, the risk for a reactor is often portrayed, often thought of as a mushroom cloud. infrastructure, the risk is not really a mushroom cloud. theres not a real risk here of a nuclear explosion like you get with a nuclear bomb. a mushroom cloud and all that. the risk here is the release of radioactivity into the environment. and the important issue is how muc...

Once those things at three mile island were not being cooled by water, once they heated to a couple thousand degrees fahrenheit, the metal tubes holding the pellets started to breakdown. when the temperature got even hotter, the uranium fuel itself started to meltdown. melting fuel rods like that can release a ton of radioactivity. they are radioactive, that is on purpose. thats how they make nuclear power. when they breakdown, they release it into the atmosphere. they also release hydrogen gas....

Arrest. back to you, shannon. >> shannon: julie, thank you very much. another fox news alert. more defiance from iran the country continues to build up the nuclear capabilities. the countrys first nuclear power plant has just come online. caroline shively is standing by with all the latest in the developments in this interesting ga. hi, caroline. >> reporter: hi to you, shannon. nationwide celebrations in iran today, marking the nuclear power plant coming online. according to iran, they only pla...