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The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is a nuclear power plant on the Bataan Peninsula, 100 kilometers (62 mi) west of Manila, Philippines. Completed but never fueled, it is located on a 3.57 km 2 (1.38 sq mi) government reservation at Napot Point in Barangay Nagbalayong, Morong, Bataan. It was the Philippines' only attempt at building a ...
[9] [10] The weak electrical grid connections between the over 1,000 inhabited islands of the Philippine archipelago presents a challenge to a nuclear policy. The mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is close to Manila, the largest electrical demand location, so is an option for revival or the site of a new plant. [11]
In 2016, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, a former defence secretary under the Marcos administration, claimed that the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was intended to be used in a development of a nuclear weapons program. While he maintained that the facility's main purpose was for electricity generation he alleged that the nuclear power plant's second ...
KEPCO-SPC Power Plant: Naga, Cebu: 200 2011 [18] STEAG Power Plant Villanueva, Misamis Oriental: 232 2006 [18] Lanao Kauswagan Power Station: Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte: 552 2019 [18] PEDC Coal Fired Power Plant: La Paz, Iloilo City: 167.4 [19] Therma South Inc. Coal Fired Power Plant: Brgy. Binugao, Toril District, Davao City: 300 2015 [20] [21]
The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) has been described in the media as a white elephant, [7] [8] an expensive lemon, [9] and a monument to greed, corruption, and folly. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] On January 26, 1981, Senator Tañada and a global coalition representing school teachers, farmers, students, health professionals, technocrats, political leaders ...
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The United States is the largest producer of nuclear power, while France has the largest share of electricity generated by nuclear power, at about 70%. [3] Some countries operated nuclear reactors in the past but have no operating nuclear power plants at present.