{"id":110556,"date":"2020-07-28T10:49:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/thorcon-defense-ministry-to-cooperate-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:49:49","slug":"thorcon-defense-ministry-to-cooperate-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/thorcon-defense-ministry-to-cooperate-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor","title":{"rendered":"Thorcon, Defense Ministry to cooperate on thorium nuclear reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thorcon-defense-ministry-to-cooperate-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thorcon said it would provide technical support to the ministry\u2019s research and development (R&amp;D) body to develop \u201ca small-scale TMSR reactor under 50 megawatts (MW)\u201d, the company wrote in a statement on Friday, Jul. 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[This will] strengthen national security in the outermost, frontier and least developed regions,\u201d reads the company\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement on Jul. 22, the Defense Ministry said the deal would help it accomplish its 2020\u20132024 strategic plan but did not mention a planned capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thorcon said it would provide technical support to the ministry\u2019s research and development (R&amp;D) body to develop \u201ca small-scale TMSR reactor under 50 megawatts (MW)\u201d, the company wrote in a statement on Friday, Jul. 24. \u201c[This will] strengthen national security in the outermost, frontier and least developed regions,\u201d reads the company\u2019s statement. In a separate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110556","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=110556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}