{"id":148974,"date":"2022-10-27T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/dow-goes-nuclear-chemical-firm-will-install-reactors-at-us-chemicals-complex"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:23:11","slug":"dow-goes-nuclear-chemical-firm-will-install-reactors-at-us-chemicals-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/dow-goes-nuclear-chemical-firm-will-install-reactors-at-us-chemicals-complex","title":{"rendered":"Dow goes nuclear: chemical firm will install reactors at US chemicals complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dow-goes-nuclear-chemical-firm-will-install-reactors-at-us-chemicals-complex.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DOW will install advanced nuclear reactors at one of its Gulf Coast sites to provide low carbon power and process heat for its chemicals production.<\/p>\n<p>Dow signed a letter of intent with reactor developer X-energy, and plans to buy a minority stake in the company. The plan is to deploy X-energy\u2019s Xe-100 high-temperature gas-cooled reactor technology at one of Dow\u2019s Gulf Coast complexes, with operations expected to begin by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdvanced small modular nuclear technology is going to be a critical tool for Dow\u2019s path to zero-carbon emissions,\u201d said Dow CEO Jim Fitterling. \u201cThis is a great opportunity for Dow to lead our industry in carbon neutral manufacturing by deploying next-generation nuclear energy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOW will install advanced nuclear reactors at one of its Gulf Coast sites to provide low carbon power and process heat for its chemicals production. Dow signed a letter of intent with reactor developer X-energy, and plans to buy a minority stake in the company. The plan is to deploy X-energy\u2019s Xe-100 high-temperature gas-cooled reactor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148974","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}