Philippine Archbishop Oscar Cruz is opposing the Philippine Governments plan to tap nuclear energy for future energy use. He was quoted as saying that the government can’t even handle the problems of floods and garbage at the nations capital and yet they want to try nuclear energy. He also sited the potential problem of the plant being attacked by terrorists.
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Two Russian companies, Rosenergoatom and Sevmash, have started to build the first ever nuclear power barge in the world. Rosenergoatom, who specializes in Nuclear Power, is financing 80% of the project and Sevmash, who builds nuclear submarines, will finance 20%. $200 M is the estimated cost to build this barge which will be completed in 2010. Announcement of this plan to build a nuclear power barge was made last year.
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It was reported a while back that the Philippines was pondering on reviving its nuclear energy program in partnership with a Japanese Energy Company. The issue however is very delicate as a past program which was to deliver to the Philippines its first nuclear power plant resulted in a graft ridden project that gave birth to a mothballed power plant that was never run due to safety concerns.
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The moth balled Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, built during the Marcos administration, could have helped stave off the energy crisis in the early nineties had it been implemented correctly. What the country got was a nuclear meltdown waiting to happen had it been allowed to run. The project was riddled with so much anomalies due to massive graft and corruption that it was once decided to convert it to another type of power plant (oil, coal, etc) instead of trying to fix its problems. Eventually that idea too was scrapped because it would come out more expensive compared to building a new power plant using conventional energy.
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