{"id":445,"date":"2023-11-13T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/?p=445"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:25:29","slug":"the-u-s-pivot-to-small-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/2023\/the-u-s-pivot-to-small-reactors\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. pivot to small reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The U.S. pivot to small reactors\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenges that continue to face small modular reactors are large. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/08\/business\/energy-environment\/nuclear-energy-idaho-nuscale.html\">recent cancellation<\/a> of America&#8217;s flagship small modular reactor project in Idaho demonstrates some of the economic challenges that face nuclear power. <strong>Ahmed Abdulla<\/strong> is quoted in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/11\/12\/climate\/nuclear-reactors-clean-energy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">recent article in The New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;that expands on these challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenges that continue to face small modular reactors are large. The recent cancellation of America&#8217;s flagship small modular reactor project in Idaho demonstrates some of the economic challenges that face nuclear power. Ahmed Abdulla is quoted in a&nbsp;recent article in The New York Times&nbsp;that expands on these challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}