{"id":135581,"date":"2022-02-13T22:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/its-time-to-rethink-nuclear-power-limitless-green-thorium-energy-is-coming"},"modified":"2022-02-13T22:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T06:23:09","slug":"its-time-to-rethink-nuclear-power-limitless-green-thorium-energy-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/its-time-to-rethink-nuclear-power-limitless-green-thorium-energy-is-coming","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to rethink Nuclear Power! Limitless Green Thorium Energy is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_jcbhE0u-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuclear power<\/strong> may not be as bad as you think. If we used Thorium instead of Uranium, we could greatly decrease dangerous radioactive by-products. There is enough Thorium in the world to meet all our energy needs for over 1,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>In this video I show you how nuclear power plants work, and how Thorium can change the game. I aim to shift your views on <strong>nuclear power<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is how energy is created in a nuclear reactor: When you split some heavier atoms into two lighter atoms, you get a lot of energy. For example, if you hit an isotope of Uranium, Uranium-235 with a neutron at the right speed, it will split into two lighter atoms like barium-141 and krypton-92 &amp; 3 neutrons. These neutrons then split other U-235 atoms, leading to a chain reaction, producing more and more energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear power may not be as bad as you think. If we used Thorium instead of Uranium, we could greatly decrease dangerous radioactive by-products. There is enough Thorium in the world to meet all our energy needs for over 1,000 years. In this video I show you how nuclear power plants work, and how Thorium [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135581","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}