{"id":465224,"date":"2026-06-07T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465224\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:18:32","slug":"why-pyroprocessing-could-be-a-game-changer-for-nuclear-waste-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465224\/","title":{"rendered":"Why pyroprocessing could be a game changer for nuclear waste recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On December 20, 1951, the Experimental Breeder Reactor-I (EBR-I) in Idaho became the first nuclear reactor in the world to generate usable electricity. As a matter of fact, it produced enough power to successfully illuminate a bank of four 200-watt lightbulbs. While modest, the achievement marked the dawn of nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nuclear power has many advantages. It\u2019s carbon-free, reliable, keeps the air clean, and supports both jobs and energy security. It supplies about nine percent of the world\u2019s electricity and roughly a quarter of all low-carbon power. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On December 20, 1951, the Experimental Breeder Reactor-I (EBR-I) in Idaho became the first nuclear reactor in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1392,600,273,235690,79474,111,139,92855,40408,69,393,235691,147,3694,90112],"class_list":["post-465224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-clean-energy","tag-energy-amp-environment","tag-environment","tag-fast-reactors","tag-molten-salt","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nuclear-fuel","tag-nuclear-waste-recycling","tag-nz","tag-physics","tag-pyroprocessing","tag-science","tag-sustainability","tag-uranium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}