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In power hungry Philippines, some advocate a nuclear revival

Manolo Serapio Jr and Enrico Dela Cruz, Reuters
Updated as of May 23 08:35 AM

The Philippines splashed out $2.3 billion on the 621-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, but mothballed it after the collapse of a dictatorship and the devastating Chernobyl disaster. Read more »

Phivolcs: Bataan Nuclear Power Plant on safe ground

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 29 02:55 PM

The mothballed Bataan nuclear power facility being considered for operation to supply the country's increasing energy needs is on safe ground, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. Read more »

Russian nuclear experts now studying BNPP for possible revival

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 30 07:56 PM

Atomic energy experts from Russia and Slovenia are now in the Philippines to study the viability of reviving the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), the Department of Energy (DOE) said Wednesday. Read more »

Energy dept seeks to calm nuclear power fears

Joel Guinto, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 20 05:12 AM

The Department of Energy on Monday stressed the need to calm the public's fears over nuclear power, as it studied the feasibility of adding it to the country's energy mix. Read more »

Duterte dials Russia for nuclear power future

Joel Guinto, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 19 08:56 PM

A discolored telephone, the direct line to the president of the Philippines, sits unused in the nerve center of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, which has become a monument to the country's decades-old atomic energy ambition. Read more »

Lagman: Bataan nuke plant best place to bury Marcos

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 15 07:43 PM

Martial Law survivor Albay Representative Edcel Lagman suggests that Ferdinand Marcos be buried at the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) instead of the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB). Read more »

Duterte nixes nuke power under his presidency

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 02 09:26 AM

DAVAO CITY - President Rodrigo Duterte has rejected proposals to use nuclear energy to bring down power costs, saying nuclear power plants will "not operate during his presidency." Read more »

Bataan Nuclear Power Plant: The dormant multi-billion peso asset

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 26 08:15 AM

It took 20 long years for the government to fully pay off the multi-billion debt, and while unused, taxpayers still pay for the plant's maintenance cost of P27 million annually. Read more »

WATCH: Drone video of Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 17 03:32 AM

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant never generated electricity after it was declared unsafe because it sits on a major earthquake fault line and lies near the Pinatubo volcano, which was dormant at that time. Read more »

DOE: Huwag magpadalos-dalos sa Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 16 11:22 PM

Tatlong senador ang bumisita sa planta para alamin kung maaari pa itong ibalik sa operasyon. Read more »

Bataan nuclear plant can weather quake, jumbo jet impact

Jacque Manabat, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 02 10:16 PM

The mothballed Bataan nuclear power plant is strong enough to withstand both an Intensity 8 earthquake or the impact from a Boeing 747, even as it needs repairs, the National Power Corp. said Friday. Read more »

Energy officials inspect Bataan nuke plant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 02 03:15 AM

The Department of Energy is looking at ways to make use of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. But a group warns its location poses a danger to residents. Read more »

Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, dapat na bang buhayin?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 01 11:28 PM

Nabuhay na naman ang debate kung dapat bang paganahin muli ang Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Read more »

Nuclear power is world's safest, good for PH: advocate

Trishia Billones, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 01 12:26 PM

An advocate of nuclear power and former lawmaker on Thursday claimed that nuclear power is the safest, cleanest, and cheapest power-generator in the Philippine context. Read more »

Cusi: Gov't may open mothballed Bataan nuclear power plant

Reuters
Posted at Aug 30 04:43 PM

The Philippines is looking into operating the country's only nuclear power plant, built four decades ago at more than $2 billion but never used, to ensure the long-term supply of clean and cheap electricity, its energy secretary said. Read more »

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