Comments on: Revival of Bataan Nuclear Power Plant a Source of Corruption?

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:33:24 +0000

WE must commission now the BNPP and let us enjoy the taxes we paid for it. It is already fully paid last 2007 and by the time value of money na hindi man lang natin sya nagamit since 1986, the ultimate cost sa bayan natin ay more than 2.3Billion dollars na because the money got sunk in in an investment that never gave back value to us.

We have to wake up to the fact that after all these ignorant knee jerk fears (as most Filipinos are prone to), never did the Pinatubo explosion or any fault line fault line of earthquake shook that plant and wrought havoc to us. Now is the time to ensure its upgraded rehabilitation, and full top notch safety and operate the plant soon. Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam are widening their competitive manufacturing edge against us through cheap nuclear generated electricity. Marcos had the foresight before and let us just build on it coz all the negative fears we have for the plant today never really materialized. The plant is intact and there was no danger at all…only cowardice among us brought by laziness to research modern facts.

By: Gábor Korpás

Gábor Korpás — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:45:53 +0000

I think it is important to decrease the fossil energy consumtion in the World. The climate changing is a danger for a country which consits of islets. A nuclear power station decreases the fossil energy consumption in global and decrease the enery import cost together for The Philippines.

By: burton

burton — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:34:39 +0000

Let us not forget:
# Gabor Korpas Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 3:08 am

“The Baatan nuclear power plant is light water reactor. It will never be Chernobyl type. Chernobyl type reactors contain enormous quantity grafit (grafit=100% carbon), because this carbon is the neutron slow down media in the Chernobyl type reactors. This carbon burnt during days in 1986.”

The fact of the matter is that a safe nuclear power plant IS indeed possible with the tried-and-tested procedures. We have seen this happen in several countries. Japan for example, which has a far higher risks of disasters like earthquake as compared to the Philippines, has no trouble maintaining its 53 nuclear reactors all over the mountainous islands. This is not limited only to developed nations, developing countries like Brazil, Argentina, India and Pakistan all have nuke power plants. Indonesia is planning to build two of them.

By: burton

burton — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:21:36 +0000

Now on the issue of Corazon Aquino Administration deciding not to operate the plant because of 4,000 defects. I agree that there are defects as of the moment and I am glad that we found them, but that does not in any way mean that the BNPP will permanently be defected. Of course we WILL DO THE NECESSARY REMODELING AND REPAIRS in order for the BNPP to function safely and efficiently.

Lets be realistic, of course the government will take all necessary precautions and perform appropriate maintenance checks because DUH it’s a nuclear power plant! And no one, even the government itself, wants a disaster to happen. In fact the government will be the first to ensure safety – they wouldn’t want their first nuclear plant to screw up and end up in int’l headlines.

By: burton

burton — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:13:13 +0000

I really do not understand why a lot of people are so paranoid about the Philippines becoming the second Chernobyl. First of all, Chernobyl is just one out of 439 nuclear power plants in the world – and the other power plants are working just fine. This means that Chernobyl is just a “negative externality” of running a nuclear powerplant, and the thing is, with the current cutting edge technology (we can participate in tech sharing with other countries) this worst case scenario CAN EASILY BE PREVENTED as what 31 nuclear powered countries have been doing nicely up to now.

That is why we must not use these negative externalities and mere “what-if-that-happens’s” as our reason in protesting against the revival of the mothballed powerplant. To do so is just as strange as saying that we should ban the production of cars simply because accidents can happen.

By: Bataan Boy

Bataan Boy — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:22:18 +0000

let the citizen of the country decide:
do not in anyway neglect their opinion towards the future of this big time absolute nonsense project. since 2007 they have the power to voice out their opinion what to do to what they have sweat for.
government should conduct a massive survey involving intelligent citizen contributing opinion of their own,their out there! mock up scenario to educate naive citizen so they could involve. evaluate the 4,000 + defects if its viably fixable. concentrate on safety issue persuading citizen that this is 100% attainable if this nuke revived and commissioned otherwise might as well demolish this or officially declare this a project that is mishandled incorrectly and only good for tourist that is interested on seeing the existence (to pay for maintenance). Citizen can not afford 2nd mistake anymore. eliminate unqualified government executive handling decisions for nuke issue that will endangering the whole country. Show the world that modern filipinos know how to handle $2 billion project properly.

By: jhoooo

jhoooo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:01:16 +0000

nu ba yan!!
cnu ba ng isip na itayo yan sa malapit sa pinatubo??

heller panu pag sumabog ung bulkan??

mag isio naman kau matatalinong tao pa nman kau!!

tsk tsk

By: magnesia

magnesia — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:31:42 +0000

muslims celebrate religion and science. a new power source is we need. secure y0’self. fossil fuel outdatedffffff(caution)cwebubawertjkicum

By: Gabor Korpas

Gabor Korpas — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:06:51 +0000

Look at Japan. Japan is full of nuclear power stations (and they are building more and more). Look at South Korea. South Korea is full of nuclear power stations (and they are building more and more). Look at China. China is full of nuclear power stations (and they are building more and more).

By: kimmie

kimmie — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:53:41 +0000

hoy dell..

grabe ka naman..
sobrang selfish mo..
hindi mo ba alam na nandun ung philippine fault..?? and pag nagkataon malakig accident un..!

ung mga taong anti sa pag rereopen nun..
hindi cla hindrances.. concerned lng po sa safety..!!
at ikaw, hindi development iniisip mo..
muka kang pera!