I'm John Batchel with my colleague Henry Sikolsky, an executive director of nonproliferation

Policy Education

Center. We've been in orbit. Now we're going down to planet Earth on the seaside, a town named

Boucher, a very large town in Iran. It was the site, I believe, of a research reactor given to Iran

by the United States of America back in the 1950s,

atoms for peace. Since then, it's been developed into a nuclear power plant. A very old

nuclear power plant's been operating many years, I believe, and it's built up enough,

spent fuel so that its rods are, we're told, nearby the plant.

Recently, it was in the news again for the reason that the U.S. or Iran was saying that there

had been strikes against Iran near Boucher.

I don't know how close.

I don't know whether it was an accident.

I do know that the report was something struck near Boucher. Henry, we've talked about striking a nuclear

power plant for years. Chiefly, we've been talking about Ukraine. You've taken that concern to

your colleagues in Washington, and I believe we've had

positive responses from the authorities and from those who worry about these things to say,

yes, we're worried about them. I don't know that that includes mentioning to target tears at the

Pentagon, thou shalt not put a missile anywhere near

Boucher.

Now, I don't know whether this is accurate or not.

It's wartime, fog of war.

But in any event, Henry Boucher is a no-go.

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