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Philippines
Abandoned Constructions
1
Number of Reactors
(as of May 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. (...)