Inside Nuclear Reactors

Inside a Nuclear Reactor
Reuters

In the Wrong Hands
During a 2006 speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about the country's nuclear ambitions, museum chief Astan Quds Razavi held a shielded sample of enriched uranium. Nuclear fuel can be scary enough, but an unstable element in potentially unstable hands continues to have the world on edge.

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