{"id":33705,"date":"2017-01-22T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/miniature-modular-nuclear-power-plants-could-be-rolled-out-in-the-us"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:50:27","slug":"miniature-modular-nuclear-power-plants-could-be-rolled-out-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/miniature-modular-nuclear-power-plants-could-be-rolled-out-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Miniature\u2019, Modular Nuclear Power Plants Could Be Rolled Out in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/miniature-modular-nuclear-power-plants-could-be-rolled-out-in-the-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The future of nuclear power might look very different than we thought, with a US-based company presenting plans for miniature, modular nuclear power plants that are so small, they can fit on the back of a truck.<\/p>\n<p>NuScale Power, the company behind the power plants, says each modular device is completely self-contained, and capable of producing 50-megawatts of electricity \u2014 enough to power thousands of homes.<\/p>\n<p>The power plants stand 29.7 metres tall, so aren\u2019t really that \u2018miniature\u2019, except relative to an acutal nuclear power plant. They also haven\u2019t been tested as yet, so we need to reserve our excitment for when we can actually see these things in action.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/miniature-modular-nuclear-power-plants-are-being-implemented-in-the-us#.WIRzVRgsF2o.facebook\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/miniature-modular-nuclear-power-...o.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of nuclear power might look very different than we thought, with a US-based company presenting plans for miniature, modular nuclear power plants that are so small, they can fit on the back of a truck. NuScale Power, the company behind the power plants, says each modular device is completely self-contained, and capable of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,873,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-nuclear-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33705","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65297,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33705\/revisions\/65297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}