Wednesday, January 30, 2008
PCCI foundation prefers nuclear power
By Gil Severino
SOMETIME in April of 1986, the reactor accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine gave 'radioactive' energy source a very bad name.
Same here in the Philippines, when former President Ferdinand Marcos' Bataan nuclear power reactor was overflowing with corruption entanglements, the 1987 Cory Constitution enshrined its entombment.
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Not the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Inc. under the presidency of the Bacolod-born, Hiligaynon speaking, Melito Sison-Salazar, Jr.
In their round table discussion, PCCI Foundation is pushing militantly for the establishment of the nuclear energy to power the Philippine industry on a massive scale.
Salazar said nuclear power is not expensive because one nuclear power reactor can energize the whole of Luzon and even the major cities of the Visayas all at the same time.
"Had Marcos perfected the Bataan nuclear project with nary a single corruption, the system could have been perfected and by now, the Filipinos can say goodbye to all those cost of electric bill to its entombment," Salazar idealized.
Here in Bacolod, bio-environmentalist Nathan Luther studied the American experience where for the past 55 years, no leaks or fission occurred and the Americans are still enjoying "the great way," - cheap electric bills.
But the discharges and waste? There are 'fast' reactors that can burn them now. All around the Philippines, countries have nuclear reactor plants. None of them are worrying about nuclear wastes.
Are they dumping them somewhere? No they are burned.
"The Economist" magazine called it the nuclear power's new age. The Philippines can buy it wholesale.
