{"id":547020,"date":"2023-01-11T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T07:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=547020"},"modified":"2023-01-11T12:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T07:11:40","slug":"a-case-for-nuclear-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-case-for-nuclear-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"A case for nuclear energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Respectively, additional private secretary (policy &amp; research) and assistant consultant, EAC-PM<\/p>\n<p>Western activism tends to push agenda that don\u2019t find buyers in the home countries to the much less-developed Global South. This activism conveniently portrays something that is cutting edge, as a global pariah. Nuclear energy is a case in point. Our country has had a history of nuclear projects being stalled due to protests, which are often funded by the West. It is worth quoting from a 2012 interview in Science with then PM of India, Manmohan Singh. \u201cThe atomic energy program has got into difficulties because these NGOs (the ones in the developed world), mostly, I think, based in the US, don\u2019t appreciate the need for our country to increase energy. The local NGO-led protests have stalled the commissioning of two 1000 MW nuclear reactors\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respectively, additional private secretary (policy &amp; research) and assistant consultant, EAC-PM Western activism tends to push agenda that don\u2019t find buyers in the home countries to the much less-developed Global South. This activism conveniently portrays something that is cutting edge, as a global pariah. Nuclear energy is a case in point. Our country has had a history of nuclear projects being stalled due to protests, which are often funded by the West. It is worth quoting from a 2012 interview in Science with then PM of India, Manmohan Singh. \u201cThe atomic energy program has got into difficulties because these NGOs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}