{"id":289,"date":"2011-07-13T09:57:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=289"},"modified":"2011-07-13T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:57:04","slug":"thorium-the-answer-to-our-nuclear-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Thorium &#8211; the answer to our nuclear future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_290\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Thorium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-290\" title=\"Thorium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Thorium-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Thorium-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Thorium-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Thorium.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thorium: an important future energy source?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Fukushima disaster in Japan has made countries around the world question their future reliance on nuclear power &#8211; Germany is abandoning it altogether. But what if you could build a nuclear reactor which could not suffer a melt down, using fuel which produced far less radioactive waste and which to top it all was a hundred times more efficient than uranium? Well in England they&#8217;re trying to do just that. Listen to my report from Daresbury near Liverpool, for Spectrum on Deutsche Welle Radio:<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"boo_embed_411223\" width=\"400\" height=\"129\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F411223-is-thorium-the-answer-to-our-nuclear-future&amp;rootID=boo_embed_411223&amp;mp3Title=Is+thorium+the+answer+to+our+nuclear+future%3F&amp;mp3Time=09.46am+13+Jul+2011&amp;mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F411223-is-thorium-the-answer-to-our-nuclear-future.mp3%3Fsource%3Dembed&amp;mp3Author=lbevanger\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/411223-is-thorium-the-answer-to-our-nuclear-future.mp3?source=embed\">Is thorium the answer to our nuclear future? (mp3)<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fukushima disaster in Japan has made countries around the world question their future reliance on nuclear power &#8211; Germany is abandoning it altogether. But what if you could build a nuclear reactor which could not suffer a melt down, using fuel which produced far less radioactive waste and which to top it all was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}