{"id":130960,"date":"2021-11-20T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-seeks-ideas-for-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2021-11-20T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:23:08","slug":"nasa-seeks-ideas-for-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-seeks-ideas-for-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"NASA seeks ideas for a nuclear reactor on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-seeks-ideas-for-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone has a good idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it.<\/p>\n<p>NASA and the nation\u2019s top federal nuclear research lab on Friday put out a request for proposals for a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fission\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fission<\/a> surface power system.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Idaho National Laboratory to establish a sun-independent power source for missions to the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/moon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">moon<\/a> by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone has a good idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it. NASA and the nation\u2019s top federal nuclear research lab on Friday put out a request for proposals for a fission surface power system. NASA is collaborating with the U.S. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130960","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}