into the atmosphere. why do you think that s not a problem? the french is saying we can t allow them to keep working on this reactor because once you reach a critical stage there s no going back. it s a problem but not a problem for three or four years. the reactor is behind schedule. it won t come online until the end of next year. then you put the fuel in it and some plutonium is produced but that takes at least another year and then you have to take that fuel out and reprocess it and iran doesn t have a reprocessing facility. it s a problem three or four years down the road. in this interim step, iran was apparently agreeing to suspend construction of this reactor and so it s a problem you can deal with but it has to be dealt with later. let s freeze the key parts of the program now. stop them from enriching uranium to 20%. lengthen the fuse and any breakouts. ken, what about the other country other than france that is clearly objecting?
completed. uranium based so why do you think that that isn t a problem, because the french seem to be saying, we can t allow them to keep working on this plutonium based reactor because once it s established, there s no going back. the reactor is behind schedule, it won t come online until the end of next year, then you put the fuel in it and some plutonium is produced, but that takes at least another year. then you ve got to take that fuel out and reprocess it. iran doesn t have a reprocessing facility. so it s a problem three or four years down the road. in this interim step,er rang has apparently agreed suspend construction of this reactor. so it s a problem you can deal with, but it has to be dealt with later. let s freeze the key parts of the program now, stop them from enriching uranium to 20%,
right. getting the fuel out is a priority. that should be starting as early as tomorrow morning. vessels were moving around the costa condoria all day today to get in place to get that started. it s a very complicated process, drivers have to go down, actually have to heat up the oil to get it up. they say it will take an entire month, and that is if the weather remains good. the ship s captain, more information coming out about him and his interrogation on wednesday. he seems to be taking the tack that this was a normal thing to go by these towns closely and to give this salute, to blow the horn as a kind of pr stunt. well, jenna, you know, it may have been a pr stunt but it really turned out to be a pr disaster, and as long as that ship is sitting as it is behind me, it will remain a disaster in terms of public relations. jenna. jenna: more to this story as we get it, gregg, thank you. jon: back in this country a police s.w.a.t. team surrounds a building in texas in a standoff
you know, this story just continues, keeps getting better or worse depending on which way you look at it. the captain always seems to be in the middle of it. francesco she teen know is under schettino is under house arrest. he said these kind of drive-byes are a normal thing. no surprise there, perhaps, this is a guy who for the better part of an hour said the only problem was a backout. here at the scene there are plans to get the fuel out, that has been a major priority. it s taken some time to do that, but the ship has now settled down, and they can get started. it s a very long, complicated process. actually, they re talking about 28 working days, that is if weather cooperates. now, earlier today two bodies were recovered, both women. many of these bodies have not been identified yet, that is certainly one of the problems for all these relatives coming here looking for some, something, some sort of sign of hope at least a body to bring
mess over there? will they seal up these reactors? what s the end game? one thing that became clear, the government said they will not operate the reactors again. it s an end game now. it looks like the utility and government are getting control. concrete? it s getting spent fuel out. you want to get control. today was a blow. it really was a blow to their effort. in a sense they scurried for protection fearing radiation exposure. so it s very unstable. it looks like it s much better than last week. it looks like they are now starting to enter the end game to get control, stability, and then try to clean up this mess and hopefully get as much of the radioactive spent fuel out as possible to dispose of it in a better way than just entombing it forever. where were you on nuclear energy? we re not involved in the debate. we supported iran having a nuclear power plant to give up its facilities to use to make nuclear weapons. we re we thinking that. you can imagine how this would