{"id":407179,"date":"2010-03-09T08:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2010-03-09T08:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T13:01:17","slug":"france%e2%80%99s-sarkozy-calls-for-new-era-of-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/407179","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Sarkozy calls for new era of nuclear power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100308\/bs_afp\/energynucleariaeafrance\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/afp\/20100308\/capt.photo_1268047521254-1-0.jpg?x=213&amp;y=142&amp;xc=1&amp;yc=1&amp;wc=410&amp;hc=273&amp;q=85&amp;sig=omVaiSrHW9fa2z2sWJbNMg--\" width=\"245\" align=\"right\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/03\/08\/12\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_France\">French<\/a> President Nicolas Sarkozy today called on international development agencies to begin financing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Nuclear_power_reactor\">nuclear power<\/a> projects in the developing world, saying such projects have been unfairly ignored in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t understand why nuclear power is ostracized by international finance,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the stuff of scandal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Agencies like the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and others must make civilian nuclear uses a priority, he said in welcoming delegates from 60 nations to a two-day conference promoting peaceful uses of nuclear energy.<\/p>\n<p>France has the world&#8217;s second-largest nuclear power sector, supplying 75 percent of its electricity. The state-owned nuclear firms, EDF and Areva, are both major players in developing next-generation nuclear plants.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy will advance France&#8217;s spread of the technology &#8212; and the lucrative contracts that may follow &#8212; by creating an International Institute of Nuclear Energy, which will include an international nuclear school, he added (Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100308\/bs_afp\/energynucleariaeafrance\" >AFP\/Yahoo News<\/a>, March 8). <strong>&#8211; PV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3177&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3177\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: French President Nicolas Sarkozy today called on international development agencies to begin financing nuclear power projects in the developing world, saying such projects have been unfairly ignored in the past. &#8220;I can&#8217;t understand why nuclear power is ostracized by international finance,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the stuff of scandal.&#8221; Agencies like the World Bank, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}