{"id":82958,"date":"2018-09-25T07:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/a-nuclear-startup-will-fold-after-failing-to-deliver-reactors-that-run-on-spent-fuel"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:01:16","slug":"a-nuclear-startup-will-fold-after-failing-to-deliver-reactors-that-run-on-spent-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/a-nuclear-startup-will-fold-after-failing-to-deliver-reactors-that-run-on-spent-fuel","title":{"rendered":"A nuclear startup will fold after failing to deliver reactors that run on spent fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-nuclear-startup-will-fold-after-failing-to-deliver-reactors-that-run-on-spent-fuel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transatomic Power, an MIT spinout that drew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/10\/nuclear-waste-startup-aiming-rebrand-atomic-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\">wide attention<\/a> and millions in funding, is shutting down almost two years after the firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/603731\/nuclear-energy-startup-transatomic-backtracks-on-key-promises\/\" target=\"_blank\">backtracked on bold claims<\/a> for its design of a molten-salt reactor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>High hopes:<\/strong> The company, founded in 2011, plans to announce later today that it\u2019s winding down.<\/p>\n<p>Transatomic had claimed its technology could generate electricity 75 times more efficiently than conventional light-water reactors, and run on their spent nuclear fuel. But in a white paper published in late 2016, it backed off the latter claim entirely and revised the 75 times figure to \u201cmore than twice,\u201d a development <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/603731\/nuclear-energy-startup-transatomic-backtracks-on-key-promises\/\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> by <em>MIT Technology Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/612193\/nuclear-startup-to-fold-after-failing-to-deliver-reactor-that-ran-on-spent-fuel\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/612193\/nuclear...pent-fuel\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transatomic Power, an MIT spinout that drew wide attention and millions in funding, is shutting down almost two years after the firm backtracked on bold claims for its design of a molten-salt reactor. High hopes: The company, founded in 2011, plans to announce later today that it\u2019s winding down. Transatomic had claimed its technology could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82958","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82972,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82958\/revisions\/82972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}