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Once finished, they are highly radioactive waste that could be dangerous for thousands of years. and thats the problem. how do you dispose of nuclear waste? >> actually, how2you dispose o that stuff is just one problem with it. theres a whole different problem that is happening right now. but seeing it being built like that is helpful for understanding what were dealing with. you saw those little pellets of uranium, right? theyre between between like tootsie roll sized and cadbury egg-sized ura...

Used up eventually. your 12 foot long fuel rod full of the uranium pellets lasts about six years in a reactor, with the reactor turned on, the fission process over about six years uses that uranium fuel up. it becomes something they call spent fuel. and when they call it spent fuel, what they mean is that it is degraded enough that even though it is still wicked radioactive, it is no longer efficient for doing what nuclear power plants are supposed to do, which is generating a lot of heat, boili...

Particles being released by those damaged spent fuel rods. by those uranium pellets in the big now probably damaged metal tubes. this is not a nuclear explosion. there are not nuclear chain reactions going on here, but this is a means by which radioactivity is being released into the atmosphere, and the question is whether or not those fuel rods, even if theyre already damaged, whether they can be resubmerged. japanese officials floated the idea of helicopters dropping water on them today. they ...

Technology and material, the actual physical stuff that is going so wrong right now in that japanese nuclear power plant we have all learned so much about in the last few days. one thing we found in our tape archives is affairly amazing piece of footage from anne thompson from nbcs chief environmental affairs correspondent. p a this aired right after barack obama was elected president in 2008. what anne is setting up, what shes talking about, shes setting up a discussion about the politics of nu...

Seeing it being built like that is helpful for understanding what were dealing with. you saw the pellets of uranium. some tooth see roll size and cad bury egg sized pellets. those pellets are stacked in these thin, 12 foot long tubes. they are metal tubes, basically filled with pellets of uranium. thats what we call fuel rods. thats essentially the business end of a nuclear reactor. big long fuel rods, mounted vertically, inserted into a steel containment vessel. whats happening inside when the ...

Uranium pellets are the fuel. and just like any fuel, it gets used up eventually. your 12 foot long fuel rod full of the uranium pellets lasts about six years in a reactor, with the reactor turned on, the fission process over about six years uses that uranium fuel up. it becomes something they call spent fuel. and when they call it spent fuel, what they mean is that it is degraded enough that even though it is still wicked radioactive, it is no longer efficient for doing what nuclear power plant...

Of footage from anne thompson from the chief environmental affairs correspondent that aired on nbc nightly news after barack obama was elected president in 2008. check out a little piece of it. what ann is setting up here, what shes talking about, shes setting up discussion about the politics of nuclear power in the united states. but what i want you to focus on is what she is showing as she is setting it up. watch. >> this is a rare look at an assembly line of what some see as americas energy f...

2008. check out a little piece of it. what ann is setting up here, what shes talking about, shes setting up discussion about the politics of nuclear power in the united states. but what i want you to focus on is what she is showing as she is setting it up. watch. >> this is a rare look at an assembly line of what some see as americas energy future, the components of nuclear power. tiny uranium pellets fill 12 foot long rods. put together, they become an assembly. inside reactors, the assemblys a...

An atom bomb, is immense. in other words, its 30 times more for an atom bomb for each little bit of uranium as compared to the uranium youre using inside of a power plant. joining us now, republican representative tom price of georgia, representative price, welcome back to the program. dr. william calvin. professor, university of washington. expert in alternative energy. and nuclear energy and climate change project manager from concerned scientists ellen banko. its a pleasure to have all three ...

Somewhere between tootsie roll size and cadbury egg-sized pellets. those pellets are stacked in these thin, 12-foot-long tubes. they are metal tubes, basically filled with pellets of uranium. thats what we call fuel rods. and thats essentially the business end of a nuclear reactor. big long fuel rods like that round ed vertically inserted into a steel containment vessel. whats happening inside when the reactor is going is a nuclear reaction, nuclear fission. atoms splitting. but instead of creat...