nuclear power plants. the problem, it closed its last plant last year and filed for bankruptcy last month. a new kind of nuclear waste, of your money. if you just look at the facts, it seems absurd that we continue to throw money after a company that is announcing we re about the declare for bankruptcy. reporter: the company would receive $118 million in new federal funds this year after raking in more than a quarter billion dollars in the last two years. as it turns out, usec is trying to build a new enrichment plant in ohio making it a bet favorite of democrats and republicans in that state s congressional delegation, including house speaker john boehner whose district is near the project. this usec issue in ohio is a uranium enrichment facility with new technology. there s been a bipartisan effort to proceed with this research that they re doing. reporter: nearly three years
nuclear program just before major talks are about to take place. the u.n. watchdog group, the iaea, reporting just moments ago that iran is installing advanced centrifuges at its main enrichment plant only days before world powers are resuming these long-awaited talks with iran. joining us now by phone, mark garrett who now works for the defense for the foundation fr the defense of democracy. what does this news mean? the iranians have been telling us for a bit now that they, in fact, had perfected these advance centrifuges, and they are now going to show us. and they intend to demonstrate, i think convincingly, that they can up the ante, that they can produce more enriched uranium more rapidly and thereby, essentially i think, shut down the notion that they re going to give up their uranium
which are ef2 in kentucky and tennessee with wind of 115 to 125 miles per hour and over 670 reports of wind damage. so, again, the pictures speak for it. take a look at where this storm is right now across the northeast. we saw winds in excess of 80 miles per hour across new england. hurricane-force winds, and that will continue throughout the day today as the storm finally exits the northeast coastline. bill: you could feel it rattling windows all night long here. reporter: a lot of people that endured hurricane sandy were really scared, because this was very reminiscent of that. bill: thank you, janice. hope we get calm real soon. martha: back overseas now in a defiant iran says that it will step up its nuclear program at this point. iran telling u.n. inspectors that it does plan into stall new and more modern equipment at their main enrichment plant there allowing the rogue regime
we re ready today. you re ready today? this is the world we live in. what if it happened tonight? what would we do? we re prepared today. reporter: prepared for any potential miscalculation. and today iran is expected to unveil new advances in its nuclear program. reports say president mahmoud ahmadinejad will announce a new enrichment plant is fully operational using locally made fuel rods. i ve got to say, i don t know what game the iranians are playing. because if they re assuming that this president is going to let them cross the line. i think they re misjudging barack obama just like saddam hussein and osama bin laden misjudged america before. i don t think we re going to let
loading fuel into iran s bashir reactor this week, on saturday. joining us now, jim walsh, iran analyst at the mit securities studies program. nice to see you, jim into good morning. give us perspective on this. what does the news mean about where iran is, in the nuclear process, and what does it mean for us? well, i think the first thing to realize is that iran is prone to overblown rhetoric. if they there is an international metal competition in overblown rhetoric they might not take the competing and might get the bronze, they say they ll planted 20 nuclear power plants, it took them 15 years to get the first plant going and the russians built it for them so i don t think we ll see lots and lots of power plants coming on line any time soon. the concern is the point that you raised, would they build another enrichment plant, they rumored to have started one in qum, which was revealed a