{"id":10849,"date":"2020-07-25T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10849"},"modified":"2020-08-03T13:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:20:33","slug":"nukes-on-luna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/25\/nukes-on-luna\/","title":{"rendered":"Nukes On Luna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2020-07-24\/us-eyes-building-nuclear-power-plants-for-moon-and-mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from US News &amp; World Report<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">US Eyes Building Nuclear Power Plants for Moon and Mars<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/topics\/author\/associated-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What If We Detonated a Nuclear Bomb on the Moon?\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2Si67zozpI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BOISE, Idaho (AP) \u2014 The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars, and on Friday put out a request for ideas from the private sector on how to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Department of Energy put out the formal request to build what it calls a fission surface power system that could allow humans to live for long periods in harsh space environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/idaho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Idaho<\/a>\u00a0National Laboratory, a nuclear research facility in eastern Idaho, the Energy Department and NASA will evaluate the ideas for developing the reactor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lab has been leading the way in the U.S. on advanced reactors, some of them micro reactors and others that can operate without water for cooling. Water-cooled nuclear reactors are the vast majority of reactors on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSmall nuclear reactors can provide the power capability necessary for space exploration missions of interest to the Federal government,\u201d the Energy Department wrote in the notice published Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2020-07-24\/us-eyes-building-nuclear-power-plants-for-moon-and-mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at US News &amp; World Report<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from US News &amp; World Report US Eyes Building Nuclear Power Plants for Moon and Mars The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars. By\u00a0Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) \u2014 The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}