{"id":118381,"date":"2021-01-11T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/meet-the-father-of-the-hydrogen-boron-laser-fusion-reactor"},"modified":"2021-01-11T21:27:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:27:54","slug":"meet-the-father-of-the-hydrogen-boron-laser-fusion-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/meet-the-father-of-the-hydrogen-boron-laser-fusion-reactor","title":{"rendered":"Meet the father of the hydrogen-boron laser fusion reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-father-of-the-hydrogen-boron-laser-fusion-reactor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2020 radiationless laser.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s leading specialists in laser fusion, the Australian physicist Prof. Heinrich Hora, has proposed a new type of nuclear reactor which promises to provide highly-efficient, radioactivity-free generation of electric power, with virtually unlimited reserves of fuel. The design uses ultra-high-power, ultra-short-pulsed lasers to trigger fusion reactions between nuclei of hydrogen and boron. Hora believes that a prototype of his reactor could be running within the decade.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous installments of this series, Jonathan Tennenbaum introduced readers to the new reactor concept and its fascinating scientific and technological background.<\/p>\n<p>It is fitting to conclude this series with an interview Tennenbaum conducted in March this year with Heinrich Hora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2020 radiationless laser. One of the world\u2019s leading specialists in laser fusion, the Australian physicist Prof. Heinrich Hora, has proposed a new type of nuclear reactor which promises to provide highly-efficient, radioactivity-free generation of electric power, with virtually unlimited reserves of fuel. The design uses ultra-high-power, ultra-short-pulsed lasers to trigger fusion reactions between nuclei [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118381","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=118381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}