Reacting to Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s bill proposing to reopen the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power plant, Greenpeace submitted a position paper to the Chamber opposing the measure and batting instead for renewable energy.
Greenpeace’s paper states that:
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Another development in the Philippine Nuclear Power saga is the announcement by DOE Sec, Angelo Reyes, that the Philippines may consider “support whether financial or technical” from countries offering to help in develop the Philippine Nuclear Power Project.
As to who in the Philippines will develop it, it is still being considered whether it will be the government or the private sector.
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Fiery Philippine Senator, Miriam Defensor - Santiago has filed a bill seeking the re-opening of the controversial Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Filed as Senate Bill 2665, which mandates the immediate re-commissioning and commercial operation of the Marcos era Power Plant.
A little check in history will show that that 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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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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