{"id":76883,"date":"2018-03-13T02:42:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/view-on-nuclear-fusion-a-moment-of-truth"},"modified":"2018-03-13T02:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:42:44","slug":"view-on-nuclear-fusion-a-moment-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/view-on-nuclear-fusion-a-moment-of-truth","title":{"rendered":"View on Nuclear Fusion: a Moment of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/view-on-nuclear-fusion-a-moment-of-truth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fusion technology promises an inexhaustible supply of clean, safe power. If it all sounds too good to be true, that\u2019s because it is. For decades scientists struggled to recreate a working sun in their laboratories \u2013 little surprise perhaps as they were attempting to fuse atomic nuclei in a superheated soup. Commercial fusion remains a dream. Yet in recent years the impossible became merely improbable and then, it felt almost overnight, technically feasible. For the last decade there has been a flurry of interest \u2013and not a little incredulity \u2013about claims, often made by companies backed by billionaires and run by bold physicists, that market-ready fusion reactors were just around the corner.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Until recently the attractions and drawbacks of nuclear fusion reactors were largely theoretical. Within a decade this will not be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Mon 12 Mar 2018 14.24 EDT Last modified on Mon 12 Mar 2018 19.15 EDT.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/mar\/12\/the-guardian-view-on-nuclear-fusion-a-moment-of-truth\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/mar\/12\/the-gu...t-of-truth<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fusion technology promises an inexhaustible supply of clean, safe power. If it all sounds too good to be true, that\u2019s because it is. For decades scientists struggled to recreate a working sun in their laboratories \u2013 little surprise perhaps as they were attempting to fuse atomic nuclei in a superheated soup. Commercial fusion remains a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}