{"id":130821,"date":"2021-11-18T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/rolls-royce-gets-funding-to-develop-mini-nuclear-reactors"},"modified":"2021-11-18T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:22:20","slug":"rolls-royce-gets-funding-to-develop-mini-nuclear-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/rolls-royce-gets-funding-to-develop-mini-nuclear-reactors","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop mini nuclear reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rolls-royce-gets-funding-to-develop-mini-nuclear-reactors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The creation of the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) business was announced following a \u00a3195m cash injection from private firms and a \u00a3210m grant from the government.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped the new company could create up to 40,000 jobs by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>However, critics say the focus should be on renewable power, not new nuclear.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Private investors and the UK government will help fund the firm\u2019s development of small nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creation of the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) business was announced following a \u00a3195m cash injection from private firms and a \u00a3210m grant from the government. It is hoped the new company could create up to 40,000 jobs by 2050. However, critics say the focus should be on renewable power, not new nuclear. Private [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1878,1490,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-employment","category-government","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130821","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}