{"id":822,"date":"2009-09-23T21:16:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T02:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2009-09-23T21:16:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T02:16:27","slug":"nuclear-energy-smaller-cheaper-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Energy: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/energy\/22867\/?a=f\">Technology Review<\/a> published an article a few months ago about a new nuclear reactor design that has the potential to transform the energy industry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe reactors are much smaller, designed to generate 150 megawatts each, but could also be strung together to generate as much as a conventional nuclear power plant. They also integrate two separate components of a conventional power plant in a single package.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babcock.com\/\">Babcock and Wilcox<\/a> designed the reactor and is the very same company that builds reactors for the United States&#8217; aircraft carriers. The new design along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.09\/china.html\">pebble reactor<\/a> designs has the potential to drastically change how we produce electricity in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology Review published an article a few months ago about a new nuclear reactor design that has the potential to transform the energy industry: The reactors are much smaller, designed to generate 150 megawatts each, but could also be strung together to generate as much as a conventional nuclear power plant. They also integrate two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}