{"id":106236,"date":"2020-04-29T16:52:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/30-years-later-this-big-boy-fusion-reactor-is-almost-ready-to-turn-on"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:52:34","slug":"30-years-later-this-big-boy-fusion-reactor-is-almost-ready-to-turn-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/30-years-later-this-big-boy-fusion-reactor-is-almost-ready-to-turn-on","title":{"rendered":"30 Years Later, This Big Boy Fusion Reactor Is Almost Ready to Turn On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/30-years-later-this-big-boy-fusion-reactor-is-almost-ready-to-turn-on.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could nuclear fusion finally be right around the corner\u2026 in 2035?<\/p>\n<p>The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, is a 30-year-old project started by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. With tens of billions of dollars on the line, this experimental tokamak fusion reactor\u2014a nuclear fusion plasma reactor where extremely hot, charged plasma spins and generates virtually limitless energy\u2014is one of a handful of extremely costly \u201cminiature suns\u201d around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could nuclear fusion finally be right around the corner\u2026 in 2035? The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, is a 30-year-old project started by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. With tens of billions of dollars on the line, this experimental tokamak fusion reactor\u2014a nuclear fusion plasma reactor where extremely hot, charged plasma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106236","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}