{"id":440,"date":"2012-03-18T03:47:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T03:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:41:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:41:15","slug":"2012-03-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-03-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorium Nuclear Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Dr. Alex Cannara<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Mar. 18, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-448\" title=\"2012-03-18-Dr.-Alex-Cannara\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-03-18-Dr.-Alex-Cannara1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"113\" \/> Dr. Alex Cannara will review the three key reasons for nuclear power, summarize key reactor design choices, and discuss (a) why Thorium is important, (b) key legislation being drafted, and (c) what citizens &amp; groups can do. Dr. Cannara has years of experience as an engineer and professor, and is the lead developer of a proposal on safe nuclear power for the 2011 MIT CoLab Competition now being judged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/50583499\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/50583499\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-03-18): Thorium Nuclear Power (Alex Cannara)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alex Cannara Mar. 18, 2012 Dr. Alex Cannara will review the three key reasons for nuclear power, summarize key reactor design choices, and discuss (a) why Thorium is important, (b) key legislation being drafted, and (c) what citizens &amp; groups can do. Dr. Cannara has years of experience as an engineer and professor, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-03-18\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thorium Nuclear Power&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7501,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/7501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}