{"id":2296,"date":"2020-03-06T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2020-03-06T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:05:09","slug":"an-experts-case-for-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2296","title":{"rendered":"An expert\u2019s case for nuclear power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Nuclear power provides about 10 percent of the world\u2019s electricity and despite the growth of renewable power in recent years continues to be the world\u2019s largest source of zero-carbon electricity.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The biggest problem with nuclear power is not safety but financial cost, specifically the huge up-front expenses associated with building safe reactors. Better regulatory policy could make it easier to reuse the same reactor designs (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/2\/29\/11132930\/nuclear-power-costs-us-france-korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as in South Korea<\/a>), but a promising nuclear future is based on innovation and new reactor designs.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/2\/28\/21155995\/jessica-lovering-nuclear-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/2\/28\/21155995\/jessica-lovering-nuclear-energy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nuclear power provides about 10 percent of the world\u2019s electricity and despite the growth of renewable power in recent years continues to be the world\u2019s largest source of zero-carbon electricity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest problem with nuclear power is not safety but financial cost, specifically the huge up-front expenses associated with building safe reactors. Better regulatory policy could make it easier to reuse the same reactor designs (as in South Korea), but a promising nuclear future is based on innovation and new reactor designs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[180,444,512],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}