{"id":571,"date":"2025-04-02T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/?p=571"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:18:18","slug":"smrs-grid-saviors-or-billion-dollar-blunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/2025\/smrs-grid-saviors-or-billion-dollar-blunders\/","title":{"rendered":"SMRs: &#8220;Grid saviors or billion-dollar blunders?&#8221;"},"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                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>A group of four experts in small modular reactors, including Professor Ahmed Abdulla, were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/small-nuclear-reactors-grid-saviors-or-billion-dollar-blunders\/\">recently interviewed<\/a> by POLITICO&#8217;s Energywire to discuss the economic, regulatory, and public acceptance challenges that would face small modular nuclear reactors as they are deployed in the electric grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of four experts in small modular reactors, including Professor Ahmed Abdulla, were recently interviewed by POLITICO&#8217;s Energywire to discuss the economic, regulatory, and public acceptance challenges that would face small modular nuclear reactors as they are deployed in the electric grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225,"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-571","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\/571","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=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}