{"id":104135,"date":"2020-03-22T18:10:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T01:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-call-for-fusion-power-plant-in-the-united-states"},"modified":"2020-03-22T18:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T01:10:48","slug":"scientists-call-for-fusion-power-plant-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-call-for-fusion-power-plant-in-the-united-states","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Call for Fusion Power Plant in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-call-for-fusion-power-plant-in-the-united-states.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Long Haul<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/scientists-fusion-reactor-lithium\">needs to happen<\/a> before that pilot fusion plant gets built \u2014 if scientists had already conquered the challenges of <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/fusion-reactors-efficient\">practical nuclear fusion<\/a> then the report wouldn\u2019t have been necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time in a generation when the fusion community has been called upon to self-organize and figure out its highest priorities for getting from fusion science to fusion energy,\u201d Bob Mungaard, CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, said in the release. \u201cHow we can get ready, with data, experience, test facilities \u2014 the things that are needed to support the science, and eventually an industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Haul There\u2019s a lot that needs to happen before that pilot fusion plant gets built \u2014 if scientists had already conquered the challenges of practical nuclear fusion then the report wouldn\u2019t have been necessary. \u201cThis is the first time in a generation when the fusion community has been called upon to self-organize and figure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}