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Mindanao, Palawan to be modular nuclear sites
By Nidz Godino
“This will be legacy work…we will open doors for the future, the next administration, and at least the regulations are there,” Department of Energy (DOE) Undersecretary Sharon Garin said DOE does not expect nuclear energy to be included in the country’s power mix within the term of the current administration, but said steps are being taken to make technology available in the future.
“The legal framework is there, but from feasibility up to the development stage, that will take time because this is very sensitive issue and sensitive technology,” she said.
The DOE is eyeing the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), with capacities ranging from 50 megawatts to 300 MW.
SMRs are faster to build compared to large nuclear plants and can be deployed to off-grid areas for more reliable source of electricity.
Garin estimates that even these SMRs would take 10 years to develop.
“If you do it the regular way, you have to have siting, you have feasibility studies and they have to develop the site to make sure that it’s durable enough to ensure safety of our people, I think it will take 10 years…so that’s long term,” Garin stressed.
Potential sites for SMRs are in Mindanao and Palawan, Garin said.
“The basic fundamental is where it’s safest as to geography and the fault lines. But we haven’t had official release of the list yet because it’s still under assessment,” she said.
As for the Bataan nuclear power plant, Garin said a third party assessment is also being considered to see if the facility is still safe to use.
“We need to make sure if we want it open, we need to make sure it’s safe…so there has been some studies already or assessments, but these are done by different companies that are possible suppliers also…so what possibly we can do is do third party assessment and also for the departments or the bureaus that we have to do the study also, we are not saying that Bataan is the only way to go, nor are we saying that we cannot go for Bataan, but we need to be very careful… we need to make sure that people are safe, they feel safe… we need regulatory and legislative legal framework for this” Garin said.
Garin said DOE is open to exploring other energy technologies available.
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