{"id":674021,"date":"2020-11-24T16:27:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T20:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674021"},"modified":"2020-11-24T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T20:27:29","slug":"novel-chemical-process-a-first-step-to-making-nuclear-fuel-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674021","title":{"rendered":"Novel chemical process a first step to making nuclear fuel with fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developing safe and sustainable fuels for nuclear energy is an integral part of Los Alamos National Laboratory&#8217;s energy security mission. Uranium dioxide, a radioactive actinide oxide, is the most widely used nuclear fuel in today&#8217;s nuclear power plants. A new &#8220;combustion synthesis&#8221; process recently established for lanthanide metals\u2014non-radioactive and positioned one row above actinides on the periodic table\u2014could be a guide for the production of safe, sustainable nuclear fuels.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-11-chemical-nuclear-fuel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Novel chemical process a first step to making nuclear fuel with fire<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing safe and sustainable fuels for nuclear energy is an integral part of Los Alamos National Laboratory&#8217;s energy security mission. Uranium dioxide, a radioactive actinide oxide, is the most widely&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}