{"id":294,"date":"2007-10-13T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2007-11-14T21:41:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T21:41:50","slug":"nuclear-may-be-popular-with-politicians-but-not-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/nuclear-may-be-popular-with-politicians-but-not-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear may be popular with politicians, but not people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2007\/nuclearunpopular20071013.gif?resize=270%2C262\" align=\"right\" height=\"262\" width=\"270\" \/>Over the past year politicians have been leaning more towards nuclear as it seems to be a convenient solution to climate change.\u00a0 While safety and economic concerns have been depreciated, the public has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/britain\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9954105\">not been convinced by the political spiel, at least in the UK<\/a>.\u00a0 That is good and offers hope that appropriate energy alternatives will be capitalised before the spread of nuclear fuel and waste accelerates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year politicians have been leaning more towards nuclear as it seems to be a convenient solution to climate change.\u00a0 While safety and economic concerns have been depreciated, the public has not been convinced by the political spiel, at least in the UK.\u00a0 That is good and offers hope that appropriate energy alternatives &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/nuclear-may-be-popular-with-politicians-but-not-people\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nuclear may be popular with politicians, but not people<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}