{"id":124454,"date":"2021-06-30T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/startup-wants-to-build-tiny-nuclear-reactors-that-run-off-nuclear-waste"},"modified":"2021-06-30T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:22:20","slug":"startup-wants-to-build-tiny-nuclear-reactors-that-run-off-nuclear-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/startup-wants-to-build-tiny-nuclear-reactors-that-run-off-nuclear-waste","title":{"rendered":"Startup Wants to Build Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Run Off Nuclear Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/startup-wants-to-build-tiny-nuclear-reactors-that-run-off-nuclear-waste.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts are excited by the concept of microreactors because nuclear facilities have historically relied on economies of scale \u2014 a paradigm this tech could reverse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicroreactors promise to turn this paradigm on its head by approaching cost competitiveness through technological learning,\u201d Alex Gilbert from the nuclear power think tank Nuclear Innovation Alliance, told <em>CNBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oklo\u2019s \u201cfast reactor\u201d plant uses energy from already-spent nuclear reactor fuel, technology that has been around since the 1950s, according to <em>CNBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts are excited by the concept of microreactors because nuclear facilities have historically relied on economies of scale \u2014 a paradigm this tech could reverse. \u201cMicroreactors promise to turn this paradigm on its head by approaching cost competitiveness through technological learning,\u201d Alex Gilbert from the nuclear power think tank Nuclear Innovation Alliance, told CNBC. Oklo\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124454","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}