{"id":114167,"date":"2020-10-11T05:48:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T12:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/a-milestone-for-small-modular-reactors-smr-2020"},"modified":"2020-10-11T05:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T12:51:58","slug":"a-milestone-for-small-modular-reactors-smr-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/a-milestone-for-small-modular-reactors-smr-2020","title":{"rendered":"A Milestone for Small Modular Reactors (SMR 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mNlggLdWUng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subject Zero Patreon<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/subjectzerolaboratories\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/subjectzerolaboratories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Milestone for Small Modular Reactors (SMR 2020) <\/p>\n<p>In a time where we need to lower our carbon footprint, all nuclear power problems are outweighed by its benefits, such as; low pollution, high output power, stable base load energy, low operating costs, cheap electricity and reliability.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the construction of new powerplants is on decline, with only one new plant being activated in the past 20 years in the united states.<\/p>\n<p>High construction cost is one of the main reasons that makes it difficult to compete with other energy options.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we don\u2019t see new nuclear facilities being built and those that are, have significant construction delays. The average time it takes to build a power plant is about 7.5 years, and total costs could reach 10s of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/a-milestone-for-small-modular-reactors-smr-2020\">Continue reading \u201cA Milestone for Small Modular Reactors (SMR 2020)\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject Zero Patreon https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/subjectzerolaboratories A Milestone for Small Modular Reactors (SMR 2020) In a time where we need to lower our carbon footprint, all nuclear power problems are outweighed by its benefits, such as; low pollution, high output power, stable base load energy, low operating costs, cheap electricity and reliability. Nevertheless, the construction of new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114167","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114169,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114167\/revisions\/114169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}