{"id":91172,"date":"2019-05-22T21:29:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/metal-foams-could-provide-lightweight-radiation-shielding"},"modified":"2019-05-22T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:29:40","slug":"metal-foams-could-provide-lightweight-radiation-shielding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/metal-foams-could-provide-lightweight-radiation-shielding","title":{"rendered":"Metal foams could provide lightweight radiation shielding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metal-foams-could-provide-lightweight-radiation-shielding.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Radiation generally comes under the heading of \u201cthings you want to stay away from,\u201d so it\u2019s no surprise that radiation shielding is a high priority in many industries. However, current shielding is bulky and heavy, so a North Carolina State University team is developing a new lightweight shielding based on <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/new-metal-composite-light-float-on-water\/37522\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">foam metals<\/a> that can block X-rays, gamma rays, and neutron radiation, as well as withstanding high-energy impact collisions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/metal-foam-lightweight-radiation-shielding\/38515\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiation generally comes under the heading of \u201cthings you want to stay away from,\u201d so it\u2019s no surprise that radiation shielding is a high priority in many industries. However, current shielding is bulky and heavy, so a North Carolina State University team is developing a new lightweight shielding based on foam metals that can block [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91172","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}