{"id":388352,"date":"2026-04-08T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388352\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:22:09","slug":"taoiseach-open-to-idea-of-nuclear-energy-in-ireland-but-cites-cost-as-main-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388352\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach \u2018open\u2019 to idea of nuclear energy in Ireland but cites cost as main barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>latest\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Belleville-sur-Loire nuclear power station in France. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/574844cf-2712-45f1-8e99-cc5e7abcdf7f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Belleville-sur-Loire nuclear power station in France. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Senan Molony and Aisling Moloney<\/p>\n<p>Today at 16:07<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin said he is \u201copen\u201d to the idea of nuclear energy in Ireland but said the cost of building a plant and the time needed to do so are significant concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This comes as a motion in favour of nuclear power is to go before the Fianna F\u00e1il Ard Fheis next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"latest\u00a0|\u00a0 The Belleville-sur-Loire nuclear power station in France. Photo: Getty Senan Molony and Aisling Moloney Today at 16:07&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-388352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388352","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=388352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}