Bataan Nuclear Power Plant Essay Example

countries. We know history repeats itself, if the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was to reopen it may cause corruption with the state of the government system in the country.

It will also add up to the growing debt of the Philippines and may be a burden to the progress of the Philippines. Another disadvantage is that the Philippines does not have the advance technological and right geographical features needed for the safety of operating the power plant. We are all aware in what happened in the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. Japan is the leading country in terms of technology yet when earthquake struck Japan, the power plant suffered some damages and leading to meltdowns.

Japan is well prepared with its advance technology but still suffered during the earthquake and tsunami. How can we expect that the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant can endure the forces of nature knowing the status of our technology in the Philippines. There is still this issue of where the waste will be disposed. A nuclear power plant is powered by the element Uranium. Although Uranium is cheaper than coal, the waste product of a nuclear plant causes pollution to the surrounding waters and it can damage the environment.

The lawmakers in the Philippines still don’t have a definite resolution for this issue. A scientist named Dr. Caloy of the National Institute of Geological Sciences proposes to find a remote and uninhabited island and it will become the waste land for the power plant but it still can cause damage to the environment. But in the growing alternative or renewable industry in the Philippines it is not

necessary to open the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. There are so many alternative energy possible in the Philippine with less risk than opening the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.

There is also confusion and fear, resulting from lack of information of lack of information causing misinforming slogans and exaggeration of the opposing sides which affects the real reason why we should not open the power plant. The Bataan Nuclear still is funded by the government for its maintenance but last year the government did not allot any funds for the power plant but energy secretary, Sec. Jose Rene Almendras, is finding sources for its maintenance and mandated the National Power Corporation to maintain this plant because he believes that this nuclear power plant is an asset to the Philippines.