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WNISR in the Media – 6 April 2021 Eco-Business (Singapore) A decade on from Fukushima, it’s time for Southeast Asia to bury its nuclear dream Other than to have mercy on soon-to-be-unemployed nuclear engineers, there is not a single reason why Southeast Asia shouldn’t leapfrog nuclear energy. Dangerous and expensive, the technology simply isn’t worth the hassle. By Tim Ha Published 12 March 2021 Every now and then, the debate resurfaces over whether nuclear power has a role to play in Southeast Asia’s energy transition. But as Japan marks a decade since the Fukushima disaster, the region needs to move on and see the technology (…)
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. (…)