{"id":18251,"date":"2015-10-08T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T21:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/fusion-reactors-economically-viable-in-a-few-decades-say-experts"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:44","slug":"fusion-reactors-economically-viable-in-a-few-decades-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/fusion-reactors-economically-viable-in-a-few-decades-say-experts","title":{"rendered":"Fusion reactors \u2018economically viable\u2019 in a few decades, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fusion-reactors-economically-viable-in-a-few-decades-say-experts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>An illustration of a tokamak with plasma (credit: ITER Organization)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fusion reactors could become an economically viable means of generating electricity within a few decades, replacing conventional nuclear power stations, according to new research at Durham University and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, U.K.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the journal Fusion Engineering and Design, builds on earlier findings that a fusion power plant could generate electricity at a price similar to that of a fission plant and identifies new advantages in using new superconductor technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/fusion-reactors-economically-viable-in-a-few-decades-say-experts\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An illustration of a tokamak with plasma (credit: ITER Organization) Fusion reactors could become an economically viable means of generating electricity within a few decades, replacing conventional nuclear power stations, according to new research at Durham University and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, U.K. The research, published in the journal Fusion Engineering and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18251","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69392,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18251\/revisions\/69392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}