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Daiichi power reactors. there's two remember. japanese nuclear and industrial safety agency told cnn today. a meltdown is a catastrophic failure, a catastrophic failure. that's what we're hearing of the reactor core with potential for widespread radiation release. a director of the agency's international affairs office expressed confidence, however, that the efforts to control the crisis would prove successful. again, this is uncharted territory because they haven't had anything like this happen. meantime, a second reactor at the same facility as we've been telling you about failed shortly aft...

Year ago and the real focus is on existing plant and what they are doing inside the facilities and that is what the u.s. government is concerned about. >> let me stop you there. you say that enrichment program is something we really have to pay attention to, if we don't pay attention to the rhetoric and as you said, it can be outlandish at times, coming from that country, why is then richment program something we have to -- enrichment program something we have to watch. >> you cannot make a nuclear weapon because you have and electricity being generated by a nuclear power plant. enrichment is ...

Where they are now and capability to get to weapons grade uranium. >> greta: at 20% could they put together a crude nuclear weapon assuming they had a delivery system which is another issue? >> no, 20% is the cut-off the atomic energy uses to define enriched, less than 20%, iranian researcher operates at 19 and 3/4% is regarded as for civil purposes. >> greta: at 20% they get power, is that right? >> yes, it would be -- research reactor would produce medical isotopes. >> greta: do they need 20% for anything else? for power or can they have something less? >> no, power reactors operate typicall...

Where they are now and capability to get to weapons grade uranium. >> greta: at 20% could they put together a crude nuclear weapon assuming they had a delivery system which is another issue? >> no, 20% is the cut-off the atomic energy uses to define enriched, less than 20%, iranian researcher operates at 19 and 3/4% is regarded as for civil purposes. >> greta: at 20% they get power, is that right? >> yes, it would be -- research reactor would produce medical isotopes. >> greta: do they need 20% for anything else? for power or can they have something less? >> no, power reactors operate typicall...

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