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The california energy commission pursuant to my legislation directed the utility to undertake certain steps to answer these questions rather than pursuing those actions with alacrity. instead the utility has raced to the nrc to try to get their facility relianced, even though their licenses run through 2024 and 2025 for the two reactors. and the time it would take to do the studies would be probably three, four years. so it's very frustrating to me as someone who represents the constituents in this area to understand why a utility would go racing to reliancing ahead of the need to get the info...

The broader issue of nuclear weapons proliferation and here is the reason i say this, kelly. there are lots of countries that have nuclear power plants that generate electricity, but just because you have one doesn't mean you can build a bomb. in fact, you need more than that and in fact, the focus on iran's program from the u.s. and others, has been enrichment because enrichment is the technology that could be misused and used for a military program, not the power plant generating electricity. >> kelly: here is the thing though, should we be able to trust the russians in moving forward to hel...

Program. iranians claim the research is for peaceful purposes but the u.s. an allies say iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. the plant in southwestern iran on the persian gulf a few miles south of the city of the same name. work has been going on for decades. a german company start building it in the mid 1970s and russia took off over in 1995. we saw pictures that construction was almost complete and now could be generating electricity in a matter of weeks. jonathan hunt is following this. >> sanction were signed off by the russians at the united nations in june but the russian government...