The Philippine government has finally paid off the Bataan nuclear power plant

[Skylane]

Pwedeng dyan na gawin yung airsoft competitions anluwang niyan dami pang pagtataguan

Ang ganda po nito

[TJMaxx]

Marcos had the right idea na magtayo ng Nuclear Power Plant.
It just so happened that nabuking yung mga kickback na binigay
kay Marcos ng Westinghouse.
Kaya nung umupo si Cory Aquino, totally mothballed na yang
nuclear power plant na yan.
Sayang. Its a source of cheap energy. If Cory Aquino had the
foresight, we would not be having the 2nd most expensive power
rates in Asia.

[VtEC]

its too risky to have a nuclear power plant in our country.We are prone to earthquakes..Somenone might say Japan had them considering they are seated on a fault line.My point here is, there are safer alternatives for power plants than the nuclear.But if you will insist, dont build it in regions 1 & 3 he he he he

FYI:
As of May 2007, 30 countries worldwide were operating 436 nuclear plants for electricity generation. Thirty-one new nuclear plants were under construction in 12 countries.

[oldblue]

dapat talaga may nuclear power plant tayo

look at developed countries, ang galing ng mga minds nila from arts, sciences etc. epekto yan ng radiation



joke lang hehehe

[funkngruvn]

mahirap magaya sa Chernobyl, accidents do happen.. mabilis pa naman kumalat radiation..

[jonski]

ok sakin tio para hindi na tayo umasa sa foreign oil and mas mababa singil sa kuryente. Mas safe and mas advance na technology ngayon kaya mas safe na ang mga nuclear energy. I don't mind if it's near where I live.

[Altis6453]

Maybe we can buy a decomissioned nuclear sub and use its reactor as a floating powerplant. That way, walang reklamo mga tao kung saan ilalagay. Yun nga lang, maintenance will be really expensive and the deterioration will be faster than a plant constructed on land.

[shadow]

safe na yan, pera lang kung si homer simpson ang employee sa safety dept ng plant

[yebo]

you can't use a nuclear sub reactor because the fuel used in them are bomb grade uranium or plutonium. that is why those reactors are very compact, because the fuel density is very high. (note: fuel density here means the grade of the fuel x mass/volume of the reactor, not the physical density of the fuel itself). the fuel used in submarines and other military vessels are around 97% fissile materials. in contrast the fuel used in civilian reactors have lower than 20% fissile materials in them. that is why when civilian reactors go bad they just have melt downs, military reactors can explode like their a-bomb cousins.

as per the bnpp being mothballed, a large reason for this is the three mile island incident. they have the same design. when the incident happened the philippine government decided to upgrade the reactor, incorporating the design revisions that came out from the tmi incident investigations. that pushed the cost of the project from $600M to over $1B. and that price was without the fuel rods yet. then after edsa, the price of oil was at around $14/barrel only. the cost of operating a nuclear power plant/MW at that time was more expensive than an oil burning plant. plus the fact that there were still no viable way to deal with the spent fuel or nuclear waste, that whatever advantages of cost nuclear reactors had would be upset later on when the plant is decommisioned (if it took $1B to build it will also take $1B to decomission it with the price adjusted to inflation over the life of the plant), that the bnpp does lie very near an active earthquake fault, plus the fact that the philippine government was at the time embroiled in a lawsuit against westinghouse to try to make the contract null due to the kickbacks and overpricing.

as for me, we don't need it. it may be unviable to convert it to another type of power plant now but hey it only takes 1 gas field discovery and maybe it will be viable to convert it to a gas fired plant. maybe. well it's paid for, it's a white elephant, no use for us, we wasted a lot of our taxes. let's just hope our politicians learned from the experience and not be so irresponsible again in the future.