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TEHRAN, Oct 4 — An Iranian nuclear reactor being converted from heavy water production into a power generating research facility will be launched within a year, a spokesman for parliament’s energy commission announced. Under a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, the Islamic...
Nuclear things. >> thank you rachel. >> first, let me ask you if i explained any of that wrong. >> that was brilliant. we got to package that. we got to show it at schools around the country. >> oh, come on. go on. correct me. seriously. go on. >> the arak reactor, it actually does make plutonium in the fuel rods and it does have to be reprocessed which is why this agreement is so significant because it bans iran from ever having a reprocessing facility. it assures that the fuels has to be shipped out of the country. in addition to reconfiguring the core, there's all these redundant steps. a f...
We could have had a deal that stopped it, the most critical part of it, enrichment to uranium to critical levels. that's the one. remember the cartoon of the bomb, he drew the red line. the deal was focusing on that supply of uranium. the one he said was his red line. now, there are other issues like this iraq reactor, arak reactor. this is a reactor that will come on line. then they will put fuel in it. after a year that turns to plutonium. that's a possible source for a bomb. iran doesn't have a processing plan to extract that plutonium. it's a three or four year away problem. the problem wh...
Completely put up. >> let me interrupt you, joe. when they say that that should be rebuilt and reconfigured so that it doesn't produce large amounts of weapons grade plutonium, you're saying that you can't necessarily make it stop producing plutonium as long as it exists, they just have to make it produce that less efficiently and take it away the plutonium once it's made. >> exactly. every reactor core produces some plutonium in the fuel rods. the original design they would have been producing about eight kilograms, enough for about two bombs a year. completely reconfigure the core. less than...
Thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> first, let me ask you if i explained any of that wrong. >> that was brilliant. we got to package that. we got to show it at schools around the country. there was a couple of small details, but not worth getting into. >> oh, come on. go on. correct me. seriously. go on. >> the arak reactor. >> yes. >> it actually does make plutonium in the fuel rods and it does have to be reprocessed, which is why this agreement is so significant, because it bans iran from ever having a reprocessing facility. it assures that whatever fuel does come out after th...