{"id":267,"date":"2008-03-28T00:03:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T04:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=267"},"modified":"2008-03-28T00:03:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T04:03:40","slug":"could-thorium-be-the-answer-to-clean-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2008\/03\/28\/could-thorium-be-the-answer-to-clean-nuclear-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Thorium be the answer to clean nuclear power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmosmagazine.com\/node\/348\">New age nuclear | COSMOS magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a really long article, so you may want to skip to the end if you want to get right to the point. \u00a0 What&#8217;s so cool about Thorium is how it breaks down as opposed to Uranium.\u00a0 It&#8217;s waste products also remain dangerously radioactive for only 5% of the time of Uranium byproducts. (500 years vs. 10,000)\u00a0 As if that wasn&#8217;t enough, there is also the possibility that Thorium-based reactor technology could be used to &#8220;incinerate&#8221; the waste products of traditional nuclear reactors, cleaning up much of their mess.\u00a0 Oh yea, and the design is incapable of a meltdown. (at least the ADS type&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New age nuclear | COSMOS magazine This is a really long article, so you may want to skip to the end if you want to get right to the point. \u00a0 What&#8217;s so cool about Thorium is how it breaks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2008\/03\/28\/could-thorium-be-the-answer-to-clean-nuclear-power\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[27,28,29],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-tech","tag-green","tag-nuclear-power","tag-thorium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}