{"id":1770,"date":"2019-04-30T09:47:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/pure\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2019-04-24T09:48:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:48:21","slug":"great-student-presentations-from-2017-the-next-step-in-nuclear-energy-the-lftr-design-by-andrew-leingang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/2019\/04\/30\/great-student-presentations-from-2017-the-next-step-in-nuclear-energy-the-lftr-design-by-andrew-leingang\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Student Presentations from 2017: The Next Step in Nuclear Energy: The LFTR Design by Andrew Leingang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This presentation will introduce the potential of a Thorium Reactor. It will include a brief history of nuclear chemistry, some fundamentals of the science behind it and a description of how power is generated in a nuclear reactor. However, its main focus will be on examining the feasibility and potential of a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), the advantages of implementing it and what problems are associated with its use. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Faculty sponsor: Arlene Courtney<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation will introduce the potential of a Thorium Reactor. It will include a brief history of nuclear chemistry, some fundamentals of the science behind it and a description of how power is generated in a nuclear reactor. However, its main focus will be on examining the feasibility and potential of a Liquid Fluoride Thorium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}