President Marcos Jr. announced that “it is time” to revisit nuclear energy and mused openly about reviving his father’s decades-old Bataan nuclear plant as a solution to fossil-fuel challenges, though it was once dogged by scandal and safety concerns.
after the 2011 Fukushima power plant disaster, when a powerful tsunami led to the release of radioactive material.“We cannot achieve a clean-energy transition without nuclear power,” Paillere said, noting that last year the IAEA hosted its first pavilion at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.At least 30 nations, most of them emerging economies, are exploring how to add nuclear to their energy mix, Paillere said. Few, however, face a decision as pressing as the Philippines’.
It’s also costly to ensure that nuclear plants are safely operated in the Philippines, which, like Japan, is in a notoriously active seismic zone called the Ring of Fire. And when nuclear plants go offline, say because of a typhoon, the energy grid can be left crippled, causing brownouts, said Bert Dalusung, an analyst at the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities.
“This is the first strong chance we’ve had in decades,” said Mark Cojuangco, a member of the House of Representatives and son of the late Danding Cojuangco, a billionaire who was close to the Marcos family. Cojuangco’s expression shifted. “Grandstanding politicos,” he snapped, just like the ones in the 1980s., crafting campaigns on TikTok and YouTube that portrayed their late patriarch as a leader who brought wealth and infrastructure, rather than debt and repression. A similar effort to remake Bataan’s image is now underway, said Cabe, the anti-nuclear activist.
Dante Ilaya, 68, has watched these efforts in disbelief. As a young lawyer in the 1980s, he marched against the plant because of its safety risks, not because of politics. Those risks
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