A Japanese disaster management expert has warned countries, including the Philippines, that are considering turning to atomic power as an alternative source of energy to carefully study this option and to heed the fatal lessons of Japan’s nuclear disaster when a huge earthquake and tsunami struck the country a year ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Learn from Fukushima, RP, other emerging nuke energy countries told
March 19, 2012
Nuclear renaissance? More like nuclear standstill
March 10, 2012
A power-hungry world needs clean, reliable energy sources, but the cost of nuclear, and heightened safety concerns from Fukushima, have stalled nuclear’s expansion.
The modular reactor proposed by Babcock & Wilcox, one of a new generation of designs meant to address safety and cost. The slideshow below shows how it would be placed vertically and underground in a plant. Read the rest of this entry »
BNPP site geologically unsafe, says UP study
October 15, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – A recent study conducted by a group of geologists from the University of the Philippines-Diliman found that Napot Point, where the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is located, is not geologically safe and at risk from many volcanic hazards. Read the rest of this entry »
Bataan nuke plant conversion likely: DOE
October 3, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – The government is likely to convert the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) into a coal-fired power facility, said Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras. Read the rest of this entry »
DOE may rechannel $100-M budget for nuclear energy development
June 25, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is considering the use of a $100-million fund budgeted for nuclear energy development, for other activities, a Department of Energy (DOE) official said. Read the rest of this entry »
Germany to phase out all nuclear plants
May 31, 2011
BERLIN—Germany’s coalition government agreed early Monday to shut down all the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022, the environment minister said, making it the first major industrialized power to go nuclear-free since the Japanese disaster. Read the rest of this entry »
Germany announces end to nuclear power by 2022
May 30, 2011
BERLIN- Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industrialised power to shut down all its nuclear plants in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be wrapped up by 2022. Read the rest of this entry »
Alternative use for Bataan nuclear plant sought
May 20, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – A Bataan lawmaker reiterated her consistent petition for an alternative use of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in view of the nuclear disaster that hit Japan. Read the rest of this entry »
Japanese going bananas, also for okra
April 17, 2011
MANILA, Philippines—With most of their crops already contaminated with radiation, Japan has opted to import more fruit and vegetables from abroad such as bananas from the Philippines. Read the rest of this entry »
Your partner can make you more ‘radioactive’
April 16, 2011
SLEEPING next to your partner eight hours straight daily for one year gives you a greater amount of radioactivity Read the rest of this entry »
