{"id":89149,"date":"2019-04-02T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/nobel-prize-winner-lasers-could-permanently-destroy-nuclear-waste"},"modified":"2019-04-02T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:45:32","slug":"nobel-prize-winner-lasers-could-permanently-destroy-nuclear-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/nobel-prize-winner-lasers-could-permanently-destroy-nuclear-waste","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize Winner: Lasers Could Permanently Destroy Nuclear Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nobel-prize-winner-lasers-could-permanently-destroy-nuclear-waste2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power can provide inexpensive electricity with little in the way of emissions, but there\u2019s a catch: it produces horrifying radioactive waste that can remain deadly for thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Gerard Mourou, the Nobel Prize-winning subject of a fascinating new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2019-nuclear-waste-storage-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bloomberg <\/em>profile<\/a>. He says that high-intensity lasers could one day render nuclear waste harmless in just a few minutes \u2014 a concept which, if realized, could make nuclear power a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nuclear-energy-can-save-earth\">vastly more appealing energy option<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nobel-prize-lasers-destroy-nuclear-waste\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nobel-prize-lasers-destroy-nuclear-waste<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear power can provide inexpensive electricity with little in the way of emissions, but there\u2019s a catch: it produces horrifying radioactive waste that can remain deadly for thousands of years. Enter Gerard Mourou, the Nobel Prize-winning subject of a fascinating new Bloomberg profile. He says that high-intensity lasers could one day render nuclear waste harmless [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89149","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=89149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}