{"id":4214,"date":"2009-11-19T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2009-11-19T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T08:00:15","slug":"the-future-of-nuclear-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4214","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Nuclear Energy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/best-and-brightest-2009\/nuclear-waste-disposal-1209\">Meet the Man Who Could End Global Warming<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By deploying sodium-cooled fast reactors.  It overstates the case, completely ignores wind and solar as contributors to green energy replacements for coal and oil, and I think it glosses over and muddles the physics a bit, but it&#8217;s interesting nonetheless.  One big hurdle, of course, is getting the masses over their phobia of things nuclear-related.<\/p>\n<p>Not mentioned is the fact that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Seawolf_(SSN-575)\">Sea Wolf<\/a> (a submarine) was powered by a sodium-cooled reactor, though of a different design than proposed here.  There were problems, but at least some of that is tied in with being on a submarine, and it was commissioned more than 50 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Man Who Could End Global Warming By deploying sodium-cooled fast reactors. It overstates the case, completely ignores wind and solar as contributors to green energy replacements for coal and oil, and I think it glosses over and muddles &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}