{"id":178180,"date":"2024-08-09T02:55:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T00:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-opportunities-and-drawbacks-of-a-nuclear-power-plant-to-meet-namibias-electricity-needs\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T00:55:11","slug":"namibia-opportunities-and-drawbacks-of-a-nuclear-power-plant-to-meet-namibias-electricity-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-opportunities-and-drawbacks-of-a-nuclear-power-plant-to-meet-namibias-electricity-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Opportunities and Drawbacks of a Nuclear Power Plant to Meet Namibia&#8217;s Electricity Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Energy security demands a reduction in reliance on imported fossil fuels as everyone braces for the potential of an impending energy apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Namibia must prioritize building a nuclear power plant if it wants to surpass its current position and become energy self-sufficient. The most cost-effective way for Namibia to boost energy security and resilience while diversifying its sources of electricity generation is through nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">Namibia is the third-largest producer of uranium in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408080562.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy security demands a reduction in reliance on imported fossil fuels as everyone braces for the potential of an impending energy apocalypse. Namibia must prioritize building a nuclear power plant if it wants to surpass its current position and become energy self-sufficient. The most cost-effective way for Namibia to boost energy security and resilience while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,49246,4895,6508,4706,724,9052,257,5141,13281,8489,7047,254],"class_list":["post-178180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drawbacks","tag-electricity","tag-meet","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-nuclear","tag-opportunities","tag-plant","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}