plutonium. plutonium. pu239. and you know what plutonium will do? plutonium as well as uranium 235 will undergo fission when a neutron taps it. and so this is used for power production. u235, used for power production. historically, when the bombs were dropped back in world war ii, the bomb that devastated hiroshima was a uranium 235 bomb. you know how much uranium 235 was left after the bomb was detonated? almost none. the united states shot its arsenal, one bomb, none left to speak of. you know what the bomb that hit nagasaki was? plutonium. plutonium. does the same thing. plutonium is made from uranium 235--238, very plentiful, but you got to bombard it with neutrons so you can make it. you can make plutonium. now, why do we get this 200 million electron volt? that's what i want you to know. you--all you guys know that uranium splits into elements and you get a lot of energy off, and you all know that the neutrons will cause new reactions. niceroony, that's junior high school knowledge, yeah, anyone takes a science course. what we wanna know is w

the scientists conducted specific tests for signs of poisons and eventually, they landed on plutonium. that does not mean he was murdered. it exists in a natural form. it's also possible his clothes were exposed to it after he died, but all this means really is the only way to know for sure that's what killed him is to test his body itself and so, the palestinians himself are digging him up. they are exhuming his body tomorrow. they've removed the stones from his tomb and concealed it off. scientists from france, russia and switzerland are already on site. tomorrow, they will open it. the scientists will remove samples from the body, which will then test independently from one another. some in france, some in russia, some in switzerland, then the remaining remains will be reburied that same day. we are told to expect the results of those tests about four months from now and that is because the manmade very rare form they'll be looking for as a potential murder weapon, it is a half-life of about four months. the kind you find in nature doesn't have that kind of half-life, so if they fi

in july, a swiss institute found his personal effects contained at normal levels of radioactive plutonium, and suspicions persist that he may have been poisoned. >> in portugal, workers are gearing up for a general strike on wednesday to protest austerity measures. >> portugal past major cuts to pensions, unemployment benefits, and social services in exchange for its bailout from the eu -- portugal passed major cuts. >> but not all workers want to take to the streets and protests on wednesday. here's more. >> almost everything is made by hand at this shoe factory. the company is successful because most of their production is sold to customers abroad to customers in england and the united states. though there is plenty of work here, about half of the company's 190 employees will probably go on strike. the factory foreman cannot understand it. he plans on working through the strike. >> we are doing fine in this factory. we do not have any reason to strike. we have plenty of orders, and the workers are in good shape. we have been paid on time for the past 20 years -- 28 years, but the strike

addressing the threat posed by nuclear power because in fact every nuclear power plant produces enough plutonium every year to create dozens of nuclear bombs so as long as you have nuclear power you have not only the danger especially which is accelerated now with climate change because both drought and flood. put nuclear power plants at grave risk but in addition you have the threat of nuclear proliferation so we need a nuclear free middle east as the starting point to create a nuclear free planet and a nuclear free world free of the nuclear weapons as well as the nuclear power plants that now pose such an increasingly great dane. in this era now of increasing. control climate change. ok now we go to actor and comedian sam seder and i've had my good friend and colleague who's going to read a viewer question on quantum of change. hurricane sandy is compelled the mainstream media to talk about climate change do you believe climate change is manmade and what should the government's role be in current climate change if any dr stein. great question sam thank you yes. climate change is here and it's

plutonium has a half-life of 24,000 years. it's not going away anytime soon. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> oh -- >> he ordered his on amazon. i'm giving him hell. >> yeah, okay. yeah, how are you? do you have your pen, or are we going to find that later? >> you ready? >> uh-huh. hello! hello. thanks for coming. >> hi. thanks for writing the book. >> haven't i met you before? >> [inaudible] >> oh, okay. hello. hello. gary johnson? >> yes. >> oh, no, no, no. you've got to be a romney girl now. >> how are you? good to see you? aren't you glad i'm not pointing to you? >> the newspaper held me over, and i was explaining it's rude to look at your watch in the middle of an interview, and i thought i'd look down, it's like a half an hour later. >> do you know brian doherty? >> no, we don't know each other. >> producer to megyn kelly -- >> i haven't seen you in such a long time. why haven't you had me on? >> [inaudible] >> oh, that's great. i'll be in new york for that. hello, i'll see you later. >>

if you say it was 250,000 partials of the plutonium in his body when he died there is one left so the chance of finding something is unlikely and if they do we do not know how much there was originally and did it play a role because it is found in the crust of the earth so it is all around us in very small quantities. >>shepard: to find it on his body would be a telling thing or not? >>guest: it depends how much they fine. they will have to test the soil around where he was buried to see if it is leaking in from the soil, so, a lot depends on what the quantities is and are around the casket. >>neil: explain to me, the scientists say they have a way to figure out it is there. it was new as of this summer and ma to do about it. >>guest: there is a, unlike uranium, which we can detect, this is a -- it emits particles and we have sensitive equipment that can detect it. >>shepard: that is what brings them to this point? >>guest: i think so. they just dug up and exhumed the 4th president of turkey, president ozat, longer than yasser arafat has been dead and they found it in his body, happen

earlier this year did a documentary reporting that they have confirmed that he died of poisoning of plutonium 210, the same allegedly used to kill a spy turned can dissident. if he was poisoned with with mew tone yum, who did it? if it turns out he was poisoned, they need to find out who did it and that's a whole different investigation. i guess it becomes a criminal investigation as opposed to this kind of medical examination. >> and, martin, who is doing this investigation right now? who is in charge of this decision to exhume his body? >> reporter: well, you know, there was great pressure after that al jazeera documentary on arafat's wife to release whatever possessions she had and to give permission to do this analysis. it's a sensitive thing for palestinians. the palestinians say they're the lead investigators. no one is really going to trust the palestinian results on this issue. so they're joined by investigators, as i mentioned earlier, from switzerland, france and russia. they took 20 specimens from arafat's body. each of those three cup tries will take one of those specimens. 20 spe

plutonium has a half-life of 24,000 years but it's not going away anytime soon. >> you can watch thisand other programs on line at booktv.org. here's a look at some books that are being published this week. >> the same course we've been on will not lead to their destination. the same path we're on means on means $20 trillion in debt the end of a second term that he won't have. it means tripling unemployment. it means stagnant take-home pay, depressed home values, a devastated military, and by the way, unless we change course we may be looking at another recession. so the question of this election comes down to this. do you want more of the same or do you want real change? >> we know what change looks like and what governor romney -- give them more power to the biggest banks is in change. another $5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy, that's not change. refusing to answer questions about the details of your policy days ahead of election, that has not changed. ruling out compromise by pledging rubberstamped a tea party folks in congress. that's not change. changing the facts whether incon

and then it will become nearly impossible to manage because that means they can continue to enrich plutonium at three levels that define nuclear capability, delivery systems, instrument capability, and warheads. the delivery systems are not a subject of negotiation. the question is whether the enrichment capability gets eliminated. drawing a line at the weapons, the warhead development is not meaningful because from richmond to weapon, and our intelligence capability on that subject is so limited. negotiations are going on. the fact of bilateral negotiation between iran and the united states is a matter of grave concern to the sunni arab -- iranian nuclear capability, totally eliminated, where negotiations seem to be going, to establish some line beyond and richmond will not take place and the conventional wisdom and that is if you permission and richmond beyond a 5% level you are close to a military enrichment capability. so to negotiate with iran, and secondly, how do you handle the enrichment problem? on the question of whether one should negotiate with iran at all, it seems to me the poi

scientists will analyze tissue samples to see if they contain any traces of radioactive substance of plutoniumt, his cause of death was never determined. >>> many were without power, some for weeks, long island power authority says those figures were only estimates b e based on last year's usage and totals will eventually be adjusted. this as two more lippa leaders are on the way out, vice president of customer service is leaving at the end of the year and a member of the board of trustees has resigned weeks after the ceoo has stepped down. >>> inflight instructions by flight attendants, middle earth may be able to help. >> welcome aboard middle earth flight. before we set out on our journey, i would like to impart the joy of safety. even if you fly with us often. >> felt more like an elf to me, frankly. it's a play on "the hobbitt," 10 million hits on youtube and awesome. >> that's cool. >>> ahead on "starting point" he stars on a show that he thinks is filth and doesn't want you to watch t a "two and a half men" controversy that doesn't involve charlie sheen. when you take a closer look... .