these things don t happen without high level signoff. there s no person saying i m going to give rudy giuliani a call and connect him with the ukrainian government on my own. these are things that are going to the secretary s suite and he is signing off on. i want to clarify. lawyers are asking me how can they suddenly classify something that was not classified and in talking to some of your former colleagues who were senior veteran diplomats, they re overseas. they re on an open call, not a classified call with a counterpart in another government. the secretary is walking into a meeting, they want to brief her on it. they sent an e-mail, i just talked to minister so-and-so. suddenly that s becoming classified because it involved the minister of another country. or clippings on the iran computer action.
a short decay time shorter mean several decades or centuries at most that s very little in comparison to the highly radioactive waste from conventional nuclear power plants it s still a long time yet but it s manageable. scale small modular reactors would also produce nuclear waste each of expected to cost around $300000000.00 whether they turn out to be a commercial success will depend on has the technology is in this design under the worst case conditions the reactor will simply shut itself down without any operator action without any computer action without any ac or d.c. power and remain cool for unlimited periods without the need to water. some experts are still skeptical. the safety of the many modules but new power plants whether using nuclear fission or fusion might end up in operation sooner than we