{"id":109089,"date":"2020-06-24T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-want-to-build-nuclear-reactors-to-power-moon-colony"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:12:52","slug":"scientists-want-to-build-nuclear-reactors-to-power-moon-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-want-to-build-nuclear-reactors-to-power-moon-colony","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Want to Build Nuclear Reactors to Power Moon Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-want-to-build-nuclear-reactors-to-power-moon-colony.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Staging Area<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The engineers say four reactors could give enough energy for a six-person crew to live on Mars, and they\u2019re hoping to use the Moon as a testing ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the moon, you\u2019re close to home,\u201d NASA engineer Michelle Rucker told <em>C&amp;EN<\/em>, \u201cso if something fails, it\u2019s a fairly close trip to get back home, whereas on Mars, your system better be working.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staging Area The engineers say four reactors could give enough energy for a six-person crew to live on Mars, and they\u2019re hoping to use the Moon as a testing ground. \u201cOn the moon, you\u2019re close to home,\u201d NASA engineer Michelle Rucker told C&amp;EN, \u201cso if something fails, it\u2019s a fairly close trip to get back [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109089","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=109089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}