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The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, the Philippines and never-completed atomic energy station, sits on a peninsula hours north of Manila, flanked by Subic Bay and Manila Bay.
Manila (proper) location map.svg Module:Location map/data/Philippines City of Manila is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Manila . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Under a regime of martial law, President Ferdinand Marcos in July 1973 announced the decision to build a nuclear power plant. This was in response to the 1973 oil crisis, as the Middle East oil embargo had put a heavy strain on the Philippine economy, and Marcos believed nuclear power to be the solution to meeting the country's energy demands and decreasing dependence on imported oil.
The Clock tower of Manila City Hall is the icon for synchronizing the time in the whole Philippine archipelago, before an atomic clock was introduced in the country in 2012. The purposes of these Philippine "towering timepieces" are to tell the time and to serve as landmarks .
Module:Location map/data/Philippines is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Philippines. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
International Atomic Time (abbreviated TAI, from its French name temps atomique international [1]) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid. [2] TAI is a weighted average of the time kept by over 450 atomic clocks in over 80 national laboratories worldwide. [3]
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name = Metro Manila Name used in the default map caption; image = Metro Manila location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 14.79 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 14.338 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 120.9 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right ...