{"id":7536,"date":"2014-04-16T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2014-04-16T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T05:48:08","slug":"kickstarter-for-a-demonstration-of-a-pump-in-lead-cooled-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/16\/kickstarter-for-a-demonstration-of-a-pump-in-lead-cooled-reactors\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter for a demonstration of a pump in lead cooled reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ksr\/assets\/001\/786\/362\/9e0da5712c027c8753bf88733c6b5d60_large.png?1395581075\" width=\"483\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Janne Wallenius of <a href=\"http:\/\/neutron.kth.se\/\">the Reactor Physics division at The Royal Institute of Technology<\/a>\u00a0has started a kickstarter for funding a demonstration of a new material they have developed. The main issue with lead cooled reactors is corrosion of steel structures and erosion of moving parts (like pump impellers) and Wallenius team has developed a new kind of steel that might solve those issues. \u00a0What is needed is a larger demonstration of the materials properties and that is what the kickstarter is about.<\/p>\n<p>It is an interesting way to fund research and well worth spreading the word about, so check it out!<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1621874315\/a-lead-pump-for-sealer-swedish-advanced-lead-react?ref=home_location\">A lead pump for SEALER: Swedish Advanced Lead Reactor<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Professor Janne Wallenius of the Reactor Physics division at The Royal Institute of Technology\u00a0has started a kickstarter for funding a demonstration of a new&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/16\/kickstarter-for-a-demonstration-of-a-pump-in-lead-cooled-reactors\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kickstarter for a demonstration of a pump in lead cooled reactors<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,57],"tags":[682,683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}