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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...

Of footage from anne thompson from the chief environmental affairs correspondent that aired on nbc nightly news after barack obama was elected president in 2008. check out a little piece of it. what ann is setting up here, what she's talking about, she's setting up discussion about the politics of nuclear power in the united states. but what i want you to focus on is what she is showing as she is setting it up. watch. >> this is a rare look at an assembly line of what some see as america's energy future, the components of nuclear power. tiny uranium pellets fill 12 foot long rods. put together...

2008. check out a little piece of it. what ann is setting up here, what she's talking about, she's setting up discussion about the politics of nuclear power in the united states. but what i want you to focus on is what she is showing as she is setting it up. watch. >> this is a rare look at an assembly line of what some see as america's energy future, the components of nuclear power. tiny uranium pellets fill 12 foot long rods. put together, they become an assembly. inside reactors, the assembly's active engine, creating nuclear energy, once done, they have radioactive waste that could be dang...

An atom bomb, is immense. in other words, it's 30 times more for an atom bomb for each little bit of uranium as compared to the uranium you're using inside of a power plant. joining us now, republican representative tom price of georgia, representative price, welcome back to the program. dr. william calvin. professor, university of washington. expert in alternative energy. and nuclear energy and climate change project manager from concerned scientists ellen banko. it's a pleasure to have all three of you. thank you so much for the time. calvin, on the science front, i want to go through some o...

Somewhere between tootsie roll size and cadbury egg-sized pellets. those pellets are stacked in these thin, 12-foot-long tubes. they are metal tubes, basically filled with pellets of uranium. that's what we call fuel rods. and that's essentially the business end of a nuclear reactor. big long fuel rods like that round ed vertically inserted into a steel containment vessel. what's happening inside when the reactor is going is a nuclear reaction, nuclear fission. atoms splitting. but instead of creating a nuclear explosion it is a controlled reaction. instead of blowing up, the nuclear reaction ...