{"id":152400,"date":"2022-12-10T13:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/worlds-first-space-battery-powered-by-game-changing-nuclear-fuel-is-coming-soon"},"modified":"2022-12-10T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T19:24:01","slug":"worlds-first-space-battery-powered-by-game-changing-nuclear-fuel-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/worlds-first-space-battery-powered-by-game-changing-nuclear-fuel-is-coming-soon","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first space battery powered by \u2018game-changing\u2019 nuclear fuel is coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-space-battery-powered-by-game-changing-nuclear-fuel-is-coming-soon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Americium-241 emits power for more than 400 years.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first space battery fueled by Americium-241, a nuclear-based fuel, will be developed in cooperation between the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and the U.K. Space Agency.<\/p>\n<p>This project will be carried out in a brand-new laboratory in Cumbria costing \u00a319 million ($23 million) and outfitted with cutting-edge machinery and technology, according to a joint press release by NNL and the Space Agency on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past 50 years space missions have used Plutonium-238 to stop spacecrafts from freezing, but it is in very limited supply,\u201d said professor Tim Tinsley, account director at NNL.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>National Nuclear Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>This project will be carried out in a brand-new laboratory in Cumbria costing \u00a319 million ($23 million) and outfitted with cutting-edge machinery and technology, according to a joint press release by NNL and the Space Agency on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/worlds-first-space-battery-powered-by-game-changing-nuclear-fuel-is-coming-soon\">Continue reading \u201cWorld\u2019s first space battery powered by \u2018game-changing\u2019 nuclear fuel is coming soon\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americium-241 emits power for more than 400 years. The world\u2019s first space battery fueled by Americium-241, a nuclear-based fuel, will be developed in cooperation between the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and the U.K. Space Agency. This project will be carried out in a brand-new laboratory in Cumbria costing \u00a319 million ($23 million) and outfitted with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152400","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}