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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine president-elect Ferdinand Marcos signalled his determination to adopt nuclear power Monday, May 23, holding talks with South Korea’s envoy on possibly reviving a mothballed $2.2 billion plant built during his father’s regime. The 620-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was left dormant after the elder Marcos was toppled in 1986. In the run-up to the May 9 presidential election, Marcos Junior spoke about the need for nuclear power to address […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said Thursday it will work with Japan’s atomic energy agency to provide technical assistance to a US start-up run by Bill Gates that is building a next-generation nuclear reactor in Wyoming. American billionaire Gates is the founder and chair of TerraPower, which plans to build its plant in the US state by 2028 using a new technology called Natrium, touted as a “carbon-free, reliable energy solution”. The Japanese […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Wind and solar power could meet 80 percent of US demand for electricity, as long as improvements are made in transmission and storage, researchers said Tuesday. Until a few years ago, these renewable energy sources were thought to be capable of supplying only about 20-30 percent of US needs, according to the report in the journal Energy and Environmental Science. Currently, the United States gets about two-thirds of its electricity […]
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 […]
Tokyo, Japan (AFP)—An armed nuclear transport vessel preparing to ship a huge cache of plutonium — enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs — to the United States arrived at a Japanese port on Monday amid tight security, local media said. The stockpile, provided by the US, Britain and France decades ago for research purposes, is being returned to the US as part of a bilateral storage deal. Television footage showed the Britain-registered ship entering a port […]
Tokyo, Japan (AFP)—Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday said Japan “cannot do without” nuclear power, as he spoke on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the devastating Fukushima disaster. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake off Japan’s northeastern coast sparked a massive tsunami that swept ashore, leaving about 18,500 people dead or missing. The wall of water also caused the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl when reactors melted down at […]
