{"id":157493,"date":"2023-02-09T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T03:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/coming-to-a-campus-near-you-nuclear-microreactors"},"modified":"2023-02-09T21:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T03:22:43","slug":"coming-to-a-campus-near-you-nuclear-microreactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/coming-to-a-campus-near-you-nuclear-microreactors","title":{"rendered":"Coming to a campus near you: Nuclear microreactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coming-to-a-campus-near-you-nuclear-microreactors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative: tiny nuclear reactors that produce only one-hundredth the electricity and can even be delivered on a truck.<\/p>\n<p>Small but meaningful amounts of electricity \u2014 nearly enough to run a small campus, a hospital or a military complex, for example \u2014 will pulse from a new generation of micronuclear reactors. Now, some universities are taking interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we see is these advanced reactor technologies having a real future in decarbonizing the energy landscape in the U.S. and around the world,\u201d said Caleb Brooks, a nuclear engineering professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative: tiny nuclear reactors that produce only one-hundredth the electricity and can even be delivered on a truck. Small but meaningful amounts of electricity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157493","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}