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S8 Ep1102: Preview for Later Today: Iran's Potential for Nuclear Weaponization. Henry Sokolski warns that Iran's Bushehr reactor contains significant spent fuel. He estimates this fuel holds enough plutonium for hundreds of bombs, which could be extracted quickly, c

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 7 July 2026

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Preview for Later Today: Iran's Potential for Nuclear Weaponization. Henry Sokolski warns that Iran's Bushehrreactor contains significant spent fuel. He estimates this fuel holds enough plutonium for hundreds of bombs, which could be extracted quickly, complicating views on Iran's nuclear energy program. (5)
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This is John Batchel, colleague Henry Sikolsky of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

0:35.6

identifies the fact that it is necessary to understand Iran.

0:40.7

The Boucher reactor operating for some time now, 15 years, Henry estimate, produces spent rods,

0:47.8

filled with what can easily be extracted chemically as plutonium, bomb-making plutonium.

0:55.1

15 to 20 of them after all these years have spent rods.

0:59.8

More of this tonight.

1:02.2

Here's Henry.

1:04.3

Well, again, it might be even worse.

1:09.8

The president has said something, which I think is kind of reasonable, that, well, Iran should

1:17.0

have a nuclear program if it's limited to producing electricity.

1:22.6

But that just recognizes that Iran has had a plant called Boucher, which is, you know, quite large, I think it's about a gigawatt that's been operating now for almost 15 years or roughly, maybe a bit more.

1:37.0

I think 2011, you know, 15 years.

1:40.9

What he means by if they're only going to produce electricity needs to be clarified.

1:48.6

For example, I have long argued, or I certainly have recently argued with great notice,

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