The Energy Department is mulling over other options for the mothballed 620-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant as a bomb shelter, hotel, library or data center, if repowering the facility is no longer feasible. Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said the government had to find “closure” on BNPP which had not operated for over 30 years. The nuclear facility was mothballed in 1986 on safety concerns as the power plant reportedly sits on a fault line. “Are we going to proceed and make it a nuclear power plant? Cusi said some sectors were supportive of nuclear energy, as long as it would not involved the Bataan nuclear facility.

Source: The Standard November 02, 2017 14:03 UTC