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Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant, completed but never fueled, on Bataan Peninsula, west of Manila in the Philippines. It is located on a 3.57 square kilometre government reservation at Napot Point in Morong, Bataan. It was the Philippines' only attempt at building a nuclear power plant. ==History== The Philippine nuclear program started in 1958 with the creation of the Philippine Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) under Republic Act 2067.〔Valdez-Fabros, Corazon. (1998-10-16) (The continuing struggle for a nuclear-free Philippines ). ''WISE News Communique''. Retrieved 2005-08-17.〕 Under a regime of martial law, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos in July 1973 announced the decision to build a nuclear power plant.〔 This was in response to the 1973 oil crisis, as the Middle East oil embargo had put a heavy strain on the Philippine economy, and Marcos believed nuclear power to be the solution to meeting the country's energy demands and decreasing dependence on imported oil.〔ABS-CBN News. (2007). (ABS-CBN Interactive ) Retrieved 2007-06-13.〕 Construction on the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant began in 1976. Following the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the United States, construction on the BNPP was stopped, and a subsequent safety inquiry into the plant revealed over 4,000 defects.〔 Among the issues raised was that it was built near major earthquake fault lines and close to the then dormant Mount Pinatubo.〔 By 1984, when the BNPP was nearly complete, its cost had reached $US2.3 billion.〔 Equipped with a Westinghouse light water reactor, it was designed to produce 621 megawatts of electricity.〔 Marcos was overthrown by the People Power Revolution in 1986. Days after the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the succeeding administration of President Corazon Aquino decided not to operate the plant.〔〔 Retrieved 2008-08-26.〕 Among other considerations taken were the strong opposition from Bataan residents and Philippine citizens as well as concern over the integrity of the construction.〔〔〔http://www.yonip.com/is-the-bataan-nuclear-power-plant-safe-by-professor-roland-g-simbulan/〕 The government sued Westinghouse for overpricing and bribery but was ultimately rejected by a United States court.〔Goodno, James. (1993-07-24). (Fossil fuel plans for nuclear station ). ''New Scientist'' Retrieved 2009-10-21〕 Debt repayment on the plant became the country's biggest single obligation. While successive governments have looked at several proposals to convert the plant into an oil, coal, or gas-fired power station, these options have all been deemed less economically attractive in the long term than simply constructing new power stations.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bataan Nuclear Power Plant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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