{"id":450634,"date":"2021-11-20T08:37:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T03:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450634"},"modified":"2021-11-20T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T04:19:07","slug":"nasa-us-govt-seek-ideas-for-nuclear-fission-surface-power-system-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nasa-us-govt-seek-ideas-for-nuclear-fission-surface-power-system-on-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA, US govt seek ideas for nuclear fission surface power system on moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone has a good idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it.<\/p>\n<p>NASA and the nation&#8217;s top federal nuclear research lab on Friday put out a request for proposals for a fission surface power system. <\/p>\n<p>NASA is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Idaho National Laboratory to establish a sun-independent power source for missions to the moon by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>Providing a reliable, high-power system on the moon is a vital next step in human space exploration, and achieving it is within our grasp, Sebastian Corbisiero, the Fission Surface Power Project lead at the lab, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone has a good idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it. NASA and the nation&#8217;s top federal nuclear research lab on Friday put out a request for proposals for a fission surface power system. NASA is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Idaho National Laboratory to establish a sun-independent power source for missions to the moon by the end of the decade. Providing a reliable, high-power system on the moon is a vital next step in human space exploration, and achieving it is within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}