Philippines

Number of Reactors

(as of July 2019)

WNISR in the Media – 23 May 2018 Reuters (UK/Philippines) In power hungry Philippines, some advocate a nuclear revival REUTERS, TOP NEWS, MAY 22, 2018 / 8:20 PM Manolo Serapio Jr, Enrico Dela Cruz MORONG, Philippines/MANILA (Reuters) - Filipino Wilfredo Torres was hired as a technician for Southeast Asia’s only nuclear power plant in the 1980s, but has spent the past decade giving guided tours at the never-used facility. 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. (...)