Nuclear

MANILA, Philippines – The government will not utilize the mothballed $2.2-billion Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) that dates back to the Marcos regime to avert the power crisis in the summer of 2015, President Aquino said yesterday.

May 28, 1984 is considered the birthday of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, (BNPP) and I was taken on a tour of the facilities by former Representative Mark Cojuangco, along with several other bloggers and journalists. Mr. Cojuangco is a staunch advocate for making the plant operational, having filed a bill for its revival in…

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MANILA, Philippines – UN-sanctioned International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will send a team to the Philippines next month for a workshop on the prospects of developing nuclear power plants in the country and help power regulators craft a bill on nuclear energy, a Department of Energy (DOE) official said.

Tokyo: Seaborne radiation from Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will wash up on the West Coast of the US this year. That’s raising concerns among some Americans including the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area city of Fairfax, California, which passed a resolution on December 6 calling for more testing of coastal seafood.

TOKYO – Japan’s government is moving to take a more direct role in the clean-up of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, as concerns grow over the ability of embattled operator Tokyo Electric to handle the legacy of the worst atomic disaster in a quarter century.

(Reuters) – The most ambitious radiation clean-up ever attempted has proved costly, complex and time-consuming since the Japanese government began it more than two years in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. It may also fail.

MORONG (PLDT/WeRoam) — Why would hard-nosed foreign investors locate in the Philippines if they cannot be assured of sufficient, steady and inexpensive electricity for their operations?

PANGASINAN Rep. Kimi Cojuangco and her husband Mark on Sunday warned that the Palace will be committing “conspiracy and economic sabotage” by removing a P50-million budget allocation for the annual maintenance of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant to pave the way for its permanent closure next year.

A Japanese disaster management expert has warned countries, including the Philippines, that are considering turning to atomic power as an alternative source of energy to carefully study this option and to heed the fatal lessons of Japan’s nuclear disaster when a huge earthquake and tsunami struck the country a year ago.

A power-hungry world needs clean, reliable energy sources, but the cost of nuclear, and heightened safety concerns from Fukushima, have stalled nuclear’s expansion. The modular reactor proposed by Babcock & Wilcox, one of a new generation of designs meant to address safety and cost. The slideshow below shows how it would be placed vertically and…

MANILA, Philippines – A recent study conducted by a group of geologists from the University of the Philippines-Diliman found that Napot Point, where the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is located, is not geologically safe and at risk from many volcanic hazards.

MANILA, Philippines – The government is likely to convert the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) into a coal-fired power facility, said Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is considering the use of a $100-million fund budgeted for nuclear energy development, for other activities, a Department of Energy (DOE) official said.

BERLIN—Germany’s coalition government agreed early Monday to shut down all the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022, the environment minister said, making it the first major industrialized power to go nuclear-free since the Japanese disaster.

BERLIN- Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industrialised power to shut down all its nuclear plants in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be wrapped up by 2022.

MANILA, Philippines – A Bataan lawmaker reiterated her consistent petition for an alternative use of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in view of the nuclear disaster that hit Japan.

MANILA, Philippines—With most of their crops already contaminated with radiation, Japan has opted to import more fruit and vegetables from abroad such as bananas from the Philippines.

SLEEPING next to your partner eight hours straight daily for one year gives you a greater amount of radioactivity

THE fallout from the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, has reached the Philippines with a reading of 131 nanosieverts, higher than the normal radiation levels of 85 to 110 nanosieverts per hour, a specialist said Wednesday.

The nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan, has prompted ASEAN members to rethink their nuclear energy policies. Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam have said they will reassess the future construction of nuclear plants. Be that as it may, these countries, regardless of the potential nuclear risk, have very little choice because of their industrialization plans and energy…

Knee jerk reactions tend to emanate from baseless assumptions and wrongly conditioned minds. Often, knee jerk reactions are instances when emotions have prevailed over reason. In some cases, these are the results of the lie told too often and had been assumed to be the truth.

People don’t understand a lot of things about radiation, so there’s understandable fear. There’s always fear of something you don’t understand—fear of the unknown. It’s a normal human reaction. The solution to it is not to give into that fear. The answer is to understand. I was taught about nuclear power in school, but that…

BERLIN – Germany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done.

BEFORE he goes any further in declaring his support for plans to activate the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), Secretary Mario Montejo of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) would be well advised to confer with experts at his old alma mater, the University of the Philippines.

ONe of my favorite broadsheet columnists, fraternity brod Randy David, has commented insightfully on our very Filipino reaction to the risk issues inherent in nuclear power that were so forcefully thrown up at us by the ongoing debacle at all four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan.

I fully agree with Senator Santiago: “There are alarmist calls borne out of superstition and ignorance that we should stop all talk in operating the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Let us be very, very careful with our facts”. The facts are that there have been only a few nuclear accidents. One was Chernobyl where some…

Until last week, it seemed like nuclear energy was going to experience a return to favor. Even the Obama administration was looking at nuclear energy as the cheap and clean alternative to coal in this era that’s super conscious of the serious impact of greenhouse gases on our weather patterns.

THE Aquino administration has proposed the establishment of a nuclear power plant in its Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) for 2011-2016, according to the country’s socioeconomic planning chief.

IF your cable TV was tuned in to ANC Wednesday morning, the rest of your day was probably ruined by Secretary Mario Montejo of the Department of Science and Technology (DOTC).