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Heard of the uranium one deal that gave russia control over a huge swath of uranium. it didn't allow uranium to be exported from this country. >> uranium doesn't leave the united states without getting an export license. >> they have no export license and that's the whole point. >> i haven't heard anyone say you made it anywhere. >> it's not like they can do whatever they want with it. >> tucker: actually they can and they did. a new report revealed what they did for a while. they approved the export of uranium with some of it traveling to canada, and europe.

Nuclear machine. attend of the day, very, very clearly, they did not dismantle the one centrifuge, the enriched uranium doesn't come out, they have a plutonium facility. so the iranians have the industrial infrastructure that they built is absolutely there and in six months they can continue and reach a situation where we won't be a able to stop iran from making a bomb. >> the other countries that agree with the united states and went forward with this publicly have to say that they were for it. but as the ambassador, are you hearinging anything behind the scenes the disgruntlement, the concer...

Nuclear machine. attend of the day, very, very clearly, they did not dismantle the one centrifuge, the enriched uranium doesn't come out, they have a plutonium facility. so the iranians have the industrial infrastructure that they built is absolutely there and in six months they can continue and reach a situation where we won't be a able to stop iran from making a bomb. >> the other countries that agree with the united states and went forward with this publicly have to say that they were for it. but as the ambassador, are you hearinging anything behind the scenes the disgruntlement, the concer...

Not talked about on the show. it is scary-sounding, but it is worth understanding, and it is understandable even if you do not have a scientifically minded mind. all right. so the fuel rods are 12-foot-long skinny pieces of metal. they are straws in essence, right? the fuel is actually stacked inside these straws, little tootsie roll-like pellets of uranium. as the fuel rods get too hot, the metal starts to break down, what happens to those pellets? well, if all goes well, maybe the pellets fuse together in the shape they were being held in inside those metal straws. maybe they stay in an orde...

The uranium doesn't stay in those orderly rods, it gets into a big single molten pile. you've heard the term "critical mass," right? it is dramatic sounding when you're talking about bike protests. it is actually dramatic when you talk about where that term comes from. if the uranium melting down in a spent fuel pool or reactor is allowed to melt down completely and become one giant molten mass, tepco admitted this week that it is possible that nuclear fission could start again. they call that criticality. if that happened, there would be an explosion. and after all the efforts to prevent the ...