{"id":115877,"date":"2020-11-14T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-world-needs-nuclear-power-and-we-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-it"},"modified":"2020-11-14T20:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T04:22:18","slug":"the-world-needs-nuclear-power-and-we-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-world-needs-nuclear-power-and-we-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-it","title":{"rendered":"The World Needs Nuclear Power, And We Shouldn\u2019t Be Afraid Of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-world-needs-nuclear-power-and-we-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although many different approaches have been proposed to address this problem, it\u2019s clear that any sustainable, long-term solution will include one important component: a transition to energy sources that don\u2019t result in additional carbon dioxide emissions. While most of the ideas put forth \u2014 such as the hypothetical Green New Deal \u2014 focus on renewable energy sources like solar and wind power, there\u2019s another option that we should seriously reconsider: nuclear fission power.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As we embrace green solutions, nuclear should absolutely be part of the equation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although many different approaches have been proposed to address this problem, it\u2019s clear that any sustainable, long-term solution will include one important component: a transition to energy sources that don\u2019t result in additional carbon dioxide emissions. While most of the ideas put forth \u2014 such as the hypothetical Green New Deal \u2014 focus on renewable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115877","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}