PREVIEW HEADLINE: The Buried Highly Enriched Uranium in Iran GUEST NAME: Andrea Stricker SUMMARY: John Batchelor speaks with Andrea Stricker about 60% enriched fissile material believed buried under sites like Fordow enrichment facility and Isfahan tunnel
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🗓️ 8 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchtcher. |
| 0:03.3 | Conversation with Andrea Stricker, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, about the fissile material |
| 0:08.4 | buried, we believe, under the piles created by the B2 raid on Iran in June. |
| 0:15.9 | What about that fissar material, especially the part that's 60% enriched? |
| 0:25.8 | It needs to be removed. When and how and who? |
| 0:31.6 | Here's Andrea. More of this tonight. I think what they'll have to do is essentially wait for Iran to excavate that material and then decide what to do about it. It's likely buried under several sites, likely in the |
| 0:40.2 | Fordow Enrichment Facility, which is 60 to 90 meters below a mountain, and then potentially in |
| 0:46.9 | the Esfahan tunnels, which are still inaccessible. Iran is working to excavate the tunnel entrances that the United States |
| 0:55.3 | collapsed with tomahawk missiles in June. And then there may be some other enriched uranium |
| 1:00.6 | underground at the Natanz facility and elsewhere. But Israel, I think, in particular, is looking |
| 1:08.5 | closely at whether there's something they can do to probably destroy that highly enriched uranium or other enriched uranium and prevent Iran from using it to make weapons-grade material for nuclear weapons. |
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