Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant completed but never fuelled on Bataan Peninsula, 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Manila, in the Philippines. It is located on a 3.57 square kilometre government reservation at Napot Point in Morong town, Bataan province. A nuclear power station. ... Bataan is a province of the Philippines occupying the whole of Bataan Peninsula on Luzon. ... Manila (Tagalog: Maynila) is the capital of the Philippines and the premier Christian city of Asia. ... Morong is a 4th class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. ... REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES Province of Bataan Region: Central Luzon (Region III) Capital: Balanga City Founded: —1754 Population: 2000 census—557,659 (46th largest) Density—406 per km² (12th highest) Area: 1,373. ...

The fuel was delivered and stored onsite, but never loaded owing to safety considerations. ^{[citation needed]}As of 2006 it is the Philippines' only attempt at building a nuclear power plant. 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

History

Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was ordered in the early 1970s by Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The oil embargo had put a heavy strain on the economy and Marcos saw nuclear power as the best way forward in terms of meeting the country's future power needs and lessening the nation's reliance on imported oil.^{[citation needed]} Ferdinand Edralín Marcos (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was the tenth president of the Philippines, serving from 1965 to 1986. ... At the height of the crisis in the United States, drivers of vehicles with odd numbered license plates were allowed to purchase gasoline only on odd-numbered days of the month, while drivers with even-numbers were limited to even-numbered days. ...

A Westinghouse light water reactor, it was designed to produce 621 MW of electricity. Construction began in 1976 and was completed in 1984 at a cost of $600 million. However, due to alleged corruption, the project cost went up to $2.3 billion.^{[citation needed]}

In April 1986, the administration of Corazon Aquino refused to operate the plant, citing its lack of safety. A study was conducted and it showed the plant had more than 4,000 defects.^{[citation needed][1]} In response, the government sued Westinghouse for overpricing and bribery but was ultimately rejected by an American court [1]. This even as it continued to pay the company for the cost of building the plant. María Corazón Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino (born January 25, 1933), widely known as Cory Aquino, was President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. ...

Future of the plant

As of 2006, debt repayment on the plant is the country's biggest single obligation. From 1996 to 1998 alone, the government paid a total of $906 million in servicing the loans for the nuclear plant.^{[citation needed]} 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Post-Aquino governments have looked at several proposals to convert the plant into an oil, coal, or gas-fired power station, but all have been deemed less economically attractive in the long term than the construction of a new fossil-fuel station.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Nuclear power phase-out

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External links

• Bataan Nuclear Power Plant
• The continuing struggle for a nuclear-free Philippines, an article by the World Information Service on Energy.