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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The opening of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant may be tackled in the 35th Association of South East Asian Nations Ministers on Energy Meeting. According to Department of Energy Undersecretary Felix Fuentebella, the Philippines is still in the process of determining whether the Philippines will support a nuclear policy. He clarified that there are still many steps to be undertaken before the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant could be […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (September 27) – The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is an atomic power plant, finished yet never energized. It is located on the Bataan Peninsula, 100 kilometers west of Manila. It is situated on a 3.57 square kilometer government reservation at Napot Point in Morong, Bataan. It was the Philippines’ lone endeavor at building an atomic power plant. The Philippine Atomic Project began in 1958 with the founding of the Philippine Atomic Energy Commission or PAEC […]
(REUTERS) — Philippine energy officials on Friday (September 16) held a tour inside the country’s only nuclear plant which was built four decades ago but never used, as they look into its revival to address the growing power shortage. Former Philippine president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos built a 620-megawatt nuclear plant in Bataan province, northwest of Manila, in 1976 in response to rising energy prices, but it was never opened due to safety hazards […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The price of electricity may be reduced by 50% if government will reactivate the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Based on the briefing done by former Pangasinan Congressman and nuclear power advocate Mark Cojuangco, nuclear power plants are cheaper and more reliable compared to other sources of electricity.
QUEZON City, Philippines – In an exclusive interview with Agila Balita Alas Dose, Senator JV Ejercito shares his experience regarding his ocular inspection of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
