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It has been approximately 35 years since the Philippines suspended the country’s only nuclear power plant, saying the 621 MW Bataan plant would be put into service while the country spent $2. 3 billion on its construction. how to build its power generation capacity in a country where electricity demand is booming as a component of economic expansion.
In a September market report, Fitch Solutions Group said: “Nuclear force will provide an effective solution to meet the country’s demand for developing electricity over the next decade, especially as a coal force, which [the] Philippines largely has if nuclear force is effectively incorporated into the force mix, coal power will face the greatest threat of being moved.
President Rodrigo Duterte announced in July a decree to create an inter-agency organization to read about the creation of a national nuclear energy policy. Alfonso Cusi, the Philippines’ energy secretary, has been a strong advocate of nuclear power as a way to build the Cusi country also said the country needed a way to control the highest electricity prices in Southeast Asia. After Duterte’s announcement, he said the president’s resolution was “a major step in achieving a nuclear power program in the Philippines,” adding that it would “help protect our consumers from classic electricity price volatility. “
The Duterte committee deserves the feasibility of adding nuclear force from an economic and environmental perspective, and the president said protection would be his primary option for deciding whether to pursue a nuclear program. Cusi said in September that the budget proposed across the country The Ministry of Energy for 2021 did not provide a budget to build a new nuclear power plant, nor to modernize the Bataan site, and said that the help of lawmakers and the public deserves to come first.
Previous discussions on the start-up of the Bataan plant (Figure 1) have barely gained popularity, due to safety considerations and the factory’s links to former President Ferdinand Marcos and his martial law regime. ordered the structure of the Bataan plant in 1976 in reaction to the global energy crisis; He argued that nuclear power was the country’s reaction to the Middle East oil embargo, which had created economic challenges; however, the plant was never fed due to protection issues after the turn of Three Mile Island’s fate in the United States in 1979 and the Chernobyl crisis in 1986 in the Soviet Union at the time.
Plant availability this time will be a more serious component of any discussion about nuclear power. Philippine officials also discussed with Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear company, a feasibility study on the deployment of small-scale nuclear reactors across the country. , with Korea Hydro
The plant comes with a soft water reactor built through Westinghouse. Last year, the country’s Ministry of National Defense, as well as the Philippine Institute for Nuclear Research, suggested the government revive Bataan. Mauro Marcelo, an engineer who oversaw the maintenance and preservation of the Bataan power plant before retiring this year, told Reuters that other corporations interested in the Philippine nuclear program come with China’s largest nuclear power plant manufacturer, China Nuclear Engineering and Construction, and Tractebel. , a Belgium-based company that supports progression. Marcellus said putting Bataan online would be an assignment of at least five years, but it would be faster than building a new nuclear power plant, which would take a decade or more.
A Rosatom spokesman in August, in comments submitted to POWER, said the company had signed a “Protocol of Intent for Cooperation in the Field of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) with the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of the Philippines in October 2019. . This allows us to share the vast wisdom and delight that we have accumulated for over 75 years. [He] Department of Energy is adopting [a] technologically impartial technique to create the combination of maximum efficient, affordable, safe and environmentally friendly energy at Celebramos the recent signing through President R. Duterte of Executive Order No. 116 leading a review for the adoption of a national position on a nuclear energy program.
Coal-based electrical power generation accounts for more than a portion of the Philippines’ electrical power, and herbal fuel and renewable energy each account for just over 20%. Oil boilers supply the rest. The developing economy of the Philippines, which grew by 6. 8% in the first 3 months of this year before the global spread of COVID-19, has led to projections that the country’s electricity consumption, which was 90 , 2 TWh in 2018, according to International Energy Agency, it would triple until 2040.
Carlo Arcilla, director of the Department of Science and Technology at the Philippine Institute for Nuclear Research (DOST-PNRI), recently said that “the biggest challenge in the Philippines is that we have one of the maximum electricity costs estimated in the “Clay said nuclear force, while requiring significant investment in advance, would be preferable due to lower fuel costs. “Ask everyone who has relatives abroad and they will tell you the stark difference between their electricity rates and ours,” Arcilla said in mid-August. “This is how the Philippines lags behind other countries in terms of force costs. Nuclear force is simply the cleanest, cheapest and most effective way to generate electricity. The nuclear force will save especially the poorest among Filipinos, who are the ones who characterize the percentage of the lion from their source of income only for electricity bills ».
Rosatom now accounts for two-thirds of the nuclear force projects under structure exported worldwide, with 36 reactors planned in 12 countries. China is also expanding its nuclear influence, with 12 projects under structure around the world. Russia and China have a strong interest in nuclear force. Philippines and Southeast Asia.
Rosatom spokesman told POWER: “We believe that nuclear power, which is reliable in terms of providing solid electricity, is one of the highest promising, safe and economically viable responses to delivering blank power to Southeast Asian countries and the world. an essential source of critical energy, nuclear power produces no CO2 emissions and can play a vital role in advancing our joint efforts to prevent climate change.
Rosatom said MRS “may be just one of the decisions in terms of nuclear force progression in the region as a cellular solution that does not require large-scale network infrastructure. RMS can generate a solid source of electricity for giant commercial installations and remote communities and would also be effective in hybrid systems when used with renewable power sources. Given the geography of the region, we would say that nuclear power plants on land and on the high seas with SMR reactors can be a very productive solution. it is an effective force solution for coastal and island territories and can be adapted to other climatic conditions, such as the warm tropical climate, without compromising protection properties. Once implemented, it can guarantee the independence of the country’s strength.
Darrell Proctor is a POWER editor.
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