{"id":687,"date":"2018-08-03T16:59:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T00:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/?p=687"},"modified":"2018-08-03T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T00:59:20","slug":"future-nuclear-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/2018\/08\/03\/future-nuclear-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Nuclear Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night I had a dream in which my job was to identify abandoned nuclear reactors, fuel rods, waste, for clean-up and <g class=\"gr_ gr_46 gr-alert sel gr_spell gr_replaced gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"46\" data-gr-id=\"46\">reclamation<\/g>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the dream, I was particularly looking in Africa because many African governments had created reactors and because they were unstable they were abandoned when the government fell apart or was replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At this point in our history, we had developed a technique for removing waste from soil and most other things and packaging it in a shipping container for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The treatment involved first extracting all the actinides from the fission products.\u00a0 The actinides would be burned in a fast reactor leaving only relatively short-lived fission products.\u00a0 The fission products would decay to safe materials in about 300 years versus a million years for waste containing actinides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night I had a dream in which my job was to identify abandoned nuclear reactors, fuel rods, waste, for clean-up and reclamation. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the dream, I was particularly looking in Africa because many African governments had created &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/2018\/08\/03\/future-nuclear-dream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}