#Nuclear Weapons: Small Modular Reactors for sale and the risk of bomb-making HALEU. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.

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#Nuclear Weapons: Small Modular Reactors for sale and the risk of bomb-making HALEU. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8693

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0:00.0	This is
0:05.4	This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.
0:09.7	Here's John Bachelor
0:12.0	Nuclear Energy.
0:14.0	Is it green?
0:15.0	Is it practical?
0:16.0	Can it be afforded?
0:18.0	I welcome Henry Sikalsky of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
0:22.0	to help me understand a new article in Science magazine,
0:25.6	the peer-reviewed top of the pile Science magazine
0:28.7	in the US, opposite nature in Europe.
0:32.1	The weapons potential of high assay low-enriched uranium shortened in the
0:37.4	acronym style of science thinkers as HALU, Henry aA-L-E-U.
0:43.0	Henry, a very good evening to you.
0:45.2	Some definitions here.
0:46.9	HALU is a fuel.
0:48.8	The reactor it's aiming for is called a modular reactor.
0:54.1	What is a modular reactor?
0:56.6	Why do I read that Virginia, the state of Virginia,
0:59.8	the governor Glen Yunken,
1:02.0	is interested in installing a small modular reactor in Virginia.
1:07.6	What can it do?
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