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, by Vera Files
Sen. Nancy Binay sought a “comprehensive study” on “what to do” with the almost four-decade-old mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) during a Senate committee hearing last Oct. 13 on the proposed budget for 2021 of the Department of Energy (DOE).
In response, Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi (...)
, by ONISHI Norimitsu
MORONG, the Philippines — It is the nuclear plant of regrets, of would haves and could haves, to a generation of Filipino scientists who had dreamed of bringing nuclear power to this energy-starved country.
The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant here sits about 45 miles west of the nation’s capital (...)
, by DAVID Randy
OUR SENSITIVITY to risk is not constant. It is always shaped by events happening around us. Twenty-five years ago, in November 1985, we were ready to fire the first nuclear power plant in the Philippines. A fateful, last-minute check demanded by international inspectors showed a few minor (...)
, by AMPARO Chester, DUMAUAL Antonio, NFBM
Dear Friends,
On June 20, 1985, the province of Bataan was witness to the biggest protest-action directed against the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), also known as the infamous “Monster of Morong”.
That day was the tail-end of a three-day protest (...)
, by CABACUNGAN Gil C. Jr., KPD, PAZZIBUGAN Dona
Dear friends,
Please see press release below, in reaction to news today — attached also for reference.
DJ Janier BATAAN NUKE PLANT REVIVAL SCORED: “A CHERNOBYL WAITING TO HAPPEN”
PRESS RELEASE
January 24, 2009
KPD
Reference: Chester Amparo, Secretary General, KPD (0917 921 3144) Au Broquil, (...)
, by Science Daily
The greater dwarf cloud rat (Carpomys melanurus) was rediscovered in April 2008 — 112 years after the first and only time it had ever been seen by scientists. Cloud rats are one of the most spectacular cases of adaptive radiation by mammals anywhere in the world, with at least 15 species ranging (...)
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