{"id":249401,"date":"2026-01-17T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249401\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:37:08","slug":"time-to-go-nuclear-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249401\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to go nuclear \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 Regarding your story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/01\/16\/ireland-losing-billions-of-euro-in-foreign-investment-due-to-energy-grid-constraints\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/01\/16\/ireland-losing-billions-of-euro-in-foreign-investment-due-to-energy-grid-constraints\/\">Billions of euro in FDI being lost due to grid constraints<\/a>,\u201d(January 16th) and the State missing, and likely to continue missing, our climate targets: we need to start thinking long and hard about how we produce much-needed power. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Renewables clearly won\u2019t produce enough and we cannot continue to use fossil fuels. The only real alternative is nuclear power. It would give us energy self-sufficiency and cut emissions. Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany has said this week the decision to close Germany\u2019s nuclear power plants was a big mistake. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Our mistake has been to ignore the issue of good clean nuclear power for the past five decades. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">PAUL WILLIAMS,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kilkee,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Clare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 Regarding your story \u201cBillions of euro in FDI being lost due to grid constraints,\u201d(January 16th) and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,39639,82],"class_list":["post-249401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-letter-of-the-day","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}