{"id":197025,"date":"2024-10-04T13:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/first-ever-compact-nuclear-reactor-runs-for-8-years-without-water"},"modified":"2024-10-04T13:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:23:29","slug":"first-ever-compact-nuclear-reactor-runs-for-8-years-without-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/first-ever-compact-nuclear-reactor-runs-for-8-years-without-water","title":{"rendered":"First-ever compact nuclear reactor runs for 8 years without water"},"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\/u7zNs2nueQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the key features of the eVinci microreactor is its impressive versatility. It will have the capability to generate five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/post\/scientists-set-a-new-fusion-reaction-world-record-millions-of-degrees-hotter-than-sun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">megawatts of electricity<\/a>, produce over 13 megawatts of high-temperature heat, or operate in combined heat and power mode, according to the Saskatchewan Research Council.<\/p>\n<p>To put this in perspective, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported in 2012 that a single megawatt of capacity from a conventional power plant can meet the energy needs of 400 to 900 homes in a year.<\/p>\n<p>Westinghouse views the eVinci microreactor as a groundbreaking technology that holds great promise for future energy requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key features of the eVinci microreactor is its impressive versatility. It will have the capability to generate five megawatts of electricity, produce over 13 megawatts of high-temperature heat, or operate in combined heat and power mode, according to the Saskatchewan Research Council. To put this in perspective, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197025","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}