{"id":110416,"date":"2020-07-24T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/us-eyes-building-nuclear-power-plants-for-moon-and-mars"},"modified":"2020-07-24T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:00:26","slug":"us-eyes-building-nuclear-power-plants-for-moon-and-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/us-eyes-building-nuclear-power-plants-for-moon-and-mars","title":{"rendered":"US Eyes Building Nuclear Power Plants for Moon and Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.us-eyes-building-nuclear-power-plants-for-moon-and-mars.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BOISE, Idaho (AP) \u2014 The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars, and on Friday put out a request for ideas from the private sector on how to do that.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Energy put out the formal request to build what it calls a fission surface power system that could allow humans to live for long periods in harsh space environments.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/idaho\">Idaho<\/a> National Laboratory, a nuclear research facility in eastern Idaho, the Energy Department and NASA will evaluate the ideas for developing the reactor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOISE, Idaho (AP) \u2014 The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars, and on Friday put out a request for ideas from the private sector on how to do that. The U.S. Department of Energy put out the formal request to build what it calls a fission [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110416","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\/110416","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\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}