{"id":577,"date":"2012-11-16T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T08:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/?p=577"},"modified":"2012-11-20T17:59:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:59:55","slug":"nuclear-power-after-fukushima-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/2012\/11\/16\/nuclear-power-after-fukushima-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Power After Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_578\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignright\" style=\"width: 150px;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/files\/2012\/11\/Higley-NERHP2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-578 \" title=\"Kathryn Higley \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/files\/2012\/11\/Higley-NERHP2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1017\/files\/2012\/11\/Higley-NERHP2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1017\/files\/2012\/11\/Higley-NERHP2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1017\/files\/2012\/11\/Higley-NERHP2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathryn Higley<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<p>Nuclear energy has grown in popularity over the years due to its low-carbon footprint, reliable energy supply, and upstanding safety\u00a0reports. Yet public perception of the energy source got a little shaky after the March 2011 earthquake in Japan damaged a nuclear\u00a0power station, resulting in a leak of radioactive nucleotides onto the\u00a0shore and into the ocean. As the world was second-guessing nuclear power, victims, the media, and researchers alike turned to an institution on the forefront of researching the increased dependability and safety of\u00a0nuclear power: Oregon State University.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole story by Kathryn Higley in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/terra\/2012\/10\/after-fukushima\/\">Terra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Chelsi Rayford<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear energy has grown in popularity over the years due to its low-carbon footprint, reliable energy supply, and upstanding safety\u00a0reports. Yet public perception of the energy source got a little shaky after the March 2011 earthquake in Japan damaged a nuclear\u00a0power station, resulting in a leak of radioactive nucleotides onto the\u00a0shore and into the ocean.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/2012\/11\/16\/nuclear-power-after-fukushima-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3938,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[523,1],"tags":[1264,872,93258,101833],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-uncategorized","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-fukushima","tag-nuclear-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}