Nuclear

The House of Representatives is pushing for the creation of a Philippine Nuclear Regulatory Commission to unify all nuclear institutions in the country.

Corazon Aquino was laid to rest yesterday. Through a massive outpouring of people in the streets, the Filipino people ousted the regime of the dictator Marcos in February 1986. The event, popularly known as the People Power Revolution, was the culmination of years of mobilizations, protests, strikes and welgang bayan (people’s strike) that preceeded the…

Napocor to submit list of options in May 2010 STATE-RUN NATIONAL POWER CORP. SAID IT TARGETS TO SUBMIT by May next year its recommendations regarding the possible rehabilitation of the mothballed 630-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) for the next administration to consider.

A French expert on nuclear waste yesterday said the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant would produce 17 tons of nuclear waste for 18 months of operation.

A French nuclear expert says that the Philippines should not use the French experience to justify the reactivation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Yves Marignac, a consultant on nuclear and energy issues and Executive Director of the energy-information agency, WISE-Paris. wrote his remarks in a July opinion piece for Cleantech Asia Online, an opinion…

Brussels, 10 July 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC is launching today an international campaign for nuclear disarmament, in the lead-up to the critically important United Nations Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in May 2010.  A focal point of the campaign is a petition addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling for strong…

An expert on nuclear power said that the country should open itself up to the technology lest it be left out by competition from its neighbors.

THE Philippine government has tapped a US-based expert to shed light on the possible revival of the mothballed Bataan nuclear power plant.

MANILA, Philippines – Pangasinan Rep. Mark Cojuangco said his proposal to revive the Bataan nuclear plant should not be turned into a “political and an emotional issue.”

MANILA, Philippines — The lead proponent in the revival of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) at the House of Representatives appealed to critics to keep politics out of his initiative and see it as the only viable answer to the country’s looming energy woes in the coming years.

MANILA: Nuclear power is emerging as an option key source of “green energy” for most developing Asian countries, in order to stem the spike in greenhouse gas emission which came along way with the region’s economic success, experts who participated in a Manila forum said.

TOKYO (Via PLDT) – The Philippines will seek Japan’s assistance on the possibility of putting up nuclear power plants as the country moves to reduce its dependence on imported oil for power and energy, President Arroyo said yesterday.

Speaker Prospero Nograles led some 60 lawmakers in withdrawing support for the bill pushing for the rehabilitation and opening of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) even as the House of Representatives is set to deliberate and is expected to approve the measure on second reading this week.

MORONG, Bataan: A big number of Morong residents on Saturday for the first time gathered at the town plaza, urging the government to activate the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in Napot Point here. The plaza had also been the venue for anti-BNPP protest actions.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines may need to spend about $1 billion should it decide to operate a nuclear power facility, an energy official said.

MANILA, Philippines – The operation of the mothballed $2.3-billion Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) will substantially bring down the cost of electricity, Pangasinan Rep. Mark Cojuangco said over the weekend.

The country would have to shell out about half of what it spent for the Bataan nuclear power plant should it decide to revive the shuttered facility.

MANILA, Philippines – Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes admitted that tapping nuclear energy as a possible source of power is an option that the Department of Energy (DOE) wants to take.

The country is not yet ready to embrace nuclear power. This was the stand made by Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes, when asked if the government was seriously pushing through with nuclear technology for the country’s power requirements.

MANILA, Philippines – Don’t be afraid of nuclear energy. Even the Pope favors its use.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government has vowed to implement proper waste disposal measures in the use of nuclear energy.

MANILA, Philippines – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a nuclear body sanctioned by the United Nations, will help the Philippines in the establishment of a nuclear regulatory council, the country’s top energy official said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Four government agencies have attested that the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) does not rest on an active fault.

Three government agencies attest that there is no active faultline beneath the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, or within the BNPP area, supporting claims that there is no danger in reviving the mothballed nuclear plant.

THE BILL “Mandating the Immediate Rehabilitation, Commissioning, and Commercial Operation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant” is moot. There’s no way that it could and should be executed.

MANILA, Philippines – The House appropriations committee approved yesterday a P100-million allocation for a new study on the viability of commissioning the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP).

BALANGA City, Bataan: Provincial Gov. Enrique “Tet” Garcia has openly spoken against the reactivation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) and if he has his way would like the mothballed nuclear structure in the mountain town of Morong dismantled.

NGOs insist reviving the mothballed BNPP endangers the lives of those who live in Central Luzon   A COALITION of nongovernment organizations (NGOs) on Wednesday divulged the names of 184 legislators endorsing a House Bill that seeks to revive the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP).

New earthquake data Since 1973, many more earthquakes have occurred around and even under Mt. Natib; one on June 24, 1991 with a magnitude of 4.6 occurred directly under Napot Point. Since 1981, six have occurred within 25 kilometers of the BNPP. Note that the largest nuclear complex in the world, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in…

MANILA, Philippines – Despite calls from lawmakers to activate the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) to prevent severe power shortage in the future, Malacañang said it would still have to check on the safety aspect of the facility.