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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 plants are supposed to do, which is generating a lot of heat, boiling a lot of water, making steam that s...

Until you have fuel rods exposed. it's hot steam interacting with the thin tubing that in which the uranium fuel, thousands of these tubes in the reactor. to have that much hydrogen means they had to have been exposed for a long time and had to have been at elevated temperatures, say 2,000 degrees. very likely the fuel is damaged, too. megyn: let me interrupt you so those of us without your education on this can try to hang with you on this. to put it in terms i think folks can understand. you say this what is we are seeing there is more significant -- i won't say worse -- more significant tha...

Tragedy, three mile island in '78 or '79. but you have no carbon foot prin with the nuclear power. it's something we create here. we don't have to go out and fight wars, whether it's with libya or iraq or worry about whether iran is going to use our money to develop nuclear weapons when we buy oil from them. there is really no safe choice right now for energy consumption, is there? >> well, first of all, we should take the oil discussion out of the equation since oil is primarily used to run motor vehicles and not turn our lights on. it's not an issue of oil versus nuclear or oil versus coal. ...

Electricity and critics don't trust the regime saying with some modifications the plant could eventually build a nuclear bomb. during the next two weeks, 80 tons of uranium fuel will be moved to the reactor with u.n. inspectors monitoring the process and over the next few days, iran is expected to follow up today's event, showing off the drone with more military related announcements. more to come. >> and julie this isn't the first time they've launched one of these iranian drones, right? is this the first successful one? we've seen these before. >> yeah, iran tested a radar droning with bombi...

Reaction will include the entire earth. and we're not kidding anyat all. can know the be as such that a bunch of thugs rule the world and take out the revolvers and go on a shooting spree and make the world insecure. >> iran's sponsored tv ran a video of the test launch and on friday a liquid fuel surface to surface missile and iran's critics scoff as ahmadnejad's description as defensive. >> we normally don't bomb his friends. that makes his definition of peace and friendship, but this is not a defensive weapon, it is an offensive weapon. >> iran unveiled the new bomber drone a day after it f...