News Articles on {?keyword?} | ABS-CBN News

Germany takes nuclear plant offline, final 6 to close over 2 years

Tom Käckenhoff, Reuters
Posted at Dec 31 01:33 AM

Germany will take another step towards completing its withdrawal from nuclear power when EnBW pulls the plug on the Philippsburg 2 power station on New Year's Eve, leaving half a dozen plants still to close over the next 2 years. Read more »

DOE says building nuclear power plant in PH still far off

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 31 12:11 AM

An international atomic energy agency expresses its full support for the Philippines' attempt to push through with nuclear energy. Read more »

Gatchalian cautions gov't vs 'high-risk' nuke deal with Russia

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 08 04:34 AM

MANILA—Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said Monday the Philippine government should be cautious in its plan on a possible joint exploration of nuclear energy with Russia. Read more »

Japanese official wants Fukushima nuke plant water dumped into ocean

Kyodo News
Posted at Sep 10 09:49 PM

Japan's environment minister called Tuesday for water contaminated with low-toxicity radioactive tritium at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to be discharged into the Pacific Ocean, potentially provoking controversy with South Korea that has expressed concerns about the idea.   Read more »

Floating nuclear power plant, sisimulan na ang operasyon sa Russia

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 29 01:19 AM

Dinisenyo ito para sa mga lugar na mahirap maabot ng kuryente. Read more »

Can Russia's floating nuke power plant help avert energy shortage in Philippines?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 25 12:03 AM

The Philippines faces a future energy shortage with the eventual depletion of the Malampaya natural gas field. Read more »

Bus sumalpok sa nuclear power plant sa Bataan; 25 sugatan

Dexter Ganibe, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 24 07:09 PM

Sugatan ang 25 katao matapos sumalpok ang isang pampasaherong bus sa pader ng Bataan Nuclear Power Plant nitong Biyernes. Read more »

Chernobyl begins new life as solar power park

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 11:04 PM

Ukraine launched Friday a park of photovoltaic panels at the former Chernobyl power plant as the country seeks to use solar power to give the scene of the world's worst nuclear disaster a new lease on life.   Read more »

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 »

Japan government, TEPCO liable for Fukushima crisis: court

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 10 03:52 PM

TOKYO, Japan - Japan could have foreseen and avoided the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, a court ruled on Tuesday, ordering the government and the power plant operator to pay damages to local residents. 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 »