{"id":13772,"date":"2022-07-02T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/blog\/austins-nuclear-reactor-how-it-could-help-us-travel-to-mars\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T18:11:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:11:09","slug":"austins-nuclear-reactor-how-it-could-help-us-travel-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/tech\/austins-nuclear-reactor-how-it-could-help-us-travel-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin&#8217;s nuclear reactor; how it could help us travel to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SV3HpD7PUs0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Inside the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in North Austin is one of the most powerful power sources on Earth: a nuclear reactor. It&#8217;s a little known fact that the city has an active reactor located so close to downtown, even though it has been here for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed about Austin and Central Texas news, weather, investigations and sports on our website and social media:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/KXANAustinNews?sub_confirmation=1<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KXANnews\/<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsmag-video-container\"><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"600\" data-height=\"900\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KXAN_News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by KXAN_News<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kxan_news<\/p>\n<h3>More info on Austin&#8217;s nuclear reactor; how it could help us travel to Mars<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ss-local-rss\"><div class=\"rss_header\"><h2><a href=\"https:\/\/cn.bing.com\/news\/search\/?q=Austin%27s+nuclear+reactor%3B+how+it+could+help+us+travel+to+Mars&amp;qft=sortbydate%3D%221%22&amp;format=rss\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"rss_title\">Austin's nuclear reactor; how it could help us travel to Mars - BingNews<\/a><br \/><span class=\"rss_description\"> Search results<\/span><\/h2><\/div><ul>\n            <li>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&amp;aid=&amp;tid=664c6f24fd8348c6bc1fea9d1d2f5385&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2024-05-exploring-extremes-life-mars.html&amp;c=17600058243878468515&amp;mkt=en-us\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tExploring extremes in the search for life on Mars\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>People might assume the search for life on Mars ended when NASA's first rovers sent back images of the planet's barren, inhospitable surface. 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