The NUCLEAR POWER PLANT in
the PHILIPPINES must be built in QUIRINO PROVINCE, REGION 2
is the SAFEST PLACE which is also far from residential areas.The
PHILIPPINE NUCLEAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE in behalf of the Philippine
government will be responsible for the new SITE where the
PHILIPPINE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT is to be built.
The geological hazards of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (Third
of a series)STAR SCIENCE By Kelvin S. Rodolfo, PhD Updated March
05, 2009
New earthquake data
Since 1973, many more earthquakes have occurred around and even
under Mt. Natib; one on June 24, 1991 with a magnitude of 4.6
occurred directly under Napot Point. Since 1981, six have occurred
within 25 kilometers of the BNPP. Note that the largest nuclear
complex in the world, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Japan, was
shut down by a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in July 2007 only 19
kilometers away. It is still inactive today.
The Lubao lineament
In 1997, Prof. Fernando Siringan, his students and I began to
study land subsidence in coastal Bataan, Pampanga, Bulacan and
Camanava. Very early, we noticed a sharp lineament in Lubao,
Pampanga that trends southwest to Mt. Natib, where it abruptly
disappears. Many earthquake epicenters plot along the lineament
which, if extended farther, trends to Napot Point. The possibility
that the lineament is a fault, and the possibility that it extends
under Mt. Natib need urgently to be explored by scientists of
Phivolcs and other institutions.
Professor Mahar Lagmay has established genetic relationships
between faults and volcanoes, including Mt. Pinatubo and the
volcanoes in Bicol.
Spent fuel pools
No country in the world has yet solved the problem of how to
store nuclear waste permanently and safely for tens and hundreds of
thousands of years. In the meantime, spent fuel is stored next to
the plants, in pools of water that absorb the radiation and
disperse the heat. The need for huge volumes of water to absorb
excess heat from the reactor and from spent fuel is why the BNPP
was built on the coast.