Here is one big question that the United States and Iran are trying to negotiate.

What happens to the uranium? Iran's cash of highly enriched uranium would be the key ingredient in developing a potential nuclear weapon.

The USA will get all nuclear dust. You know what the nuclear dust is? President Trump has been referring to this material as nuclear dust. Last Friday, the president talked about the issue at a turning point USA event in Arizona.

And somebody said, how are we going to get the nuclear dust?

We're going to get it by going in with Iran with lots of excavators.

Trump has consistently said that one of the main objectives of this war is to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon.

Though, in a social media post on Monday, President Trump wrote that obtaining this uranium would be a, quote, long and difficult process.

Consider this. How would the United States remove highly enriched uranium from Iran?

Thank you. remove highly enriched uranium from Iran. From NPR, I'm Scott Detrow.

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The U.S. estimates Iran possesses nearly a thousand pounds of highly enriched uranium. It's considered this from NPR. The U.S. estimates Iran possesses nearly a thousand pounds of highly enriched uranium.

It's not quite enriched to the level needed for an atomic weapon, but it's not far off.

The U.S. would like to convince Iran to give up this cash, which raises the question, how would that even work?

We called someone who has experience with this sort of disarmament.

Scott Roker is vice president of the Nuclear Material Security Program at the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

He previously served in the National Nuclear Security Administration. Scott, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me on. Have you ever done this kind of work without the full cooperation of the government that's ready to disarm?

Yeah, the United States has a lot of experience of removing H.U. Highly enriched uranium. In fact, we've removed all of the H.U. from more than 30 different countries around the globe. But in every instance, we had full agreement with each of those governments.

So how does this normally happen? Like you said, the U.S. has done this a lot of times, always with

a country on board. Let's assume that some sort of agreement is reached in these talks. Iran does

agree to allow the U.S. or a third party to remove the uranium? What would happen next?

Yeah, so actually what would happen, in my opinion, with Iran would be different than how we've done it in the past.

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