{"id":176,"date":"2004-09-02T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T22:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net:8080\/?p=176"},"modified":"2004-09-19T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2004-09-19T19:06:22","slug":"go-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Go China!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rare that I get excited about a news-ish event.  China is announcing plans to build 30 Nuclear reactors in the next 15 years.  This has got to be the coolest thing I&#8217;ve ever heard of China doing.<\/p>\n<p>Before you go crazy, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.09\/china.html?tw=wn_tophead_7\">this article<\/a>.  For a short summary:  This isn&#8217;t your father&#8217;s nuclear reactor.  This is what should have been built from the beginning, unfortunately there was too much greed. <\/p>\n<p>These reactors are meltdown-proof.  The design is such that the laws of physics keep the reaction in check.  It&#8217;s been demonstrated&#8230; They&#8217;ve cut the cooling system off, and sat back and watched it do what it&#8217;s supposed to do&#8211; cool itself off and slow the reaction.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first rational step I&#8217;ve seen toward a sustainable energy solution in a long time.  This solves more than just the problem of fossil-burning power plants, it answers the question that nobody seems to be brave enough to ask&#8211; &#8220;Where is the hydrogen going to come from?&#8221;  These reactors are particularly well suited to generate the hydrogen needed for fuel cells to power things like emissions-free cars.<\/p>\n<p>Now we just have to figure out someway to undo the psychological damage caused by the mass media and nutcases and show the world safe nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>I just worry that we&#8217;re probably too late, and the global weather situation is going to be painfully obvious to all the nay-sayers in the next 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Berck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rare that I get excited about a news-ish event. China is announcing plans to build 30 Nuclear reactors in the next 15 years. This has got to be the coolest thing I&#8217;ve ever heard of China doing. Before you go crazy, check out this article. For a short summary: This isn&#8217;t your father&#8217;s nuclear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggishness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}