{"id":1622,"date":"2010-02-16T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2010-02-16T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:38:27","slug":"this_is_good_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"This Is Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/16\/obama-backs-1st-nuke-plant-decades\/?feat=home_headlines\">Washington Times<\/a>&nbsp;reports that President Obama has announced roughly $8 billion in federal loan guarantees to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in three decades.&nbsp; This is good news.&nbsp; This plant will create jobs and generate much needed electricity.&nbsp; The only issue with any nuclear plant is what to do with the waste after the power is generated.&nbsp; The planned facility for storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada has been blocked by Senator Harry Reid.<\/p>\n<p>This is an area where Republicans can truly back the President&#8217;s policies.&nbsp; The only thing I would add is to mention that in France, which gets about two thirds of its electricity from nuclear power, the nuclear power plants are standardized throughout the country.&nbsp; That means that a nuclear power specialist trained at one plant can work at any plant in the country.&nbsp; It would be a really good thing to do something similar in America to help ease our dependence on foreign oil and grow our economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Times&nbsp;reports that President Obama has announced roughly $8 billion in federal loan guarantees to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in three decades.&nbsp; This is good news.&nbsp; This plant will create jobs and generate much needed electricity.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1622\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}