{"id":129037,"date":"2021-10-15T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T00:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/ex-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-cheap-portable-nuclear-reactor"},"modified":"2021-10-15T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T00:22:22","slug":"ex-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-cheap-portable-nuclear-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/ex-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-cheap-portable-nuclear-reactor","title":{"rendered":"Ex-SpaceX Engineers Are Building a Cheap, Portable Nuclear Reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ex-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-cheap-portable-nuclear-reactor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power is going portable in the form of relatively lightweight, cost-effective microreactors. A team of former SpaceX engineers is developing the \u201cworld\u2019s first portable, zero-emissions power source\u201d that can bring power to remote areas and also allows for quick installation of new units in populated areas, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2020\/09\/22\/2097339\/0\/en\/Former-SpaceX-Engineers-Raise-1-2M-and-Launch-Radiant-Which-Is-Developing-the-First-Portable-Zero-Emissions-Power-Source-That-Works-Anywhere.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a press statement<\/a> revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the team secured $1.2 million in funding from angel investors for their startup Radiant to help develop its portable nuclear microreactors, which are aimed at both commercial and military applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear power is going portable in the form of relatively lightweight, cost-effective microreactors. A team of former SpaceX engineers is developing the \u201cworld\u2019s first portable, zero-emissions power source\u201d that can bring power to remote areas and also allows for quick installation of new units in populated areas, a press statement revealed. Last year, the team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129037","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}