Officials need to be educated on nuclear power
Ronaldo Castanaga
23 Feb 2010
Re: “See you in hell”
Jeremias, saying ‘See you in hell’ may not apply to you. You’re a man of good character and your many good ideas you brought forth in this forum have strong impact to correct the ills and insanities of the gov’t (local and national) putting us in the level of Bangladesh.
I share your frustrations and concerns about Pangasinan going nuclear. Nuclear is not my savvy being simply educated at Manantan Tech of Urdaneta. But this I know (correct me if I am wrong): To break even, and for one unit, you need at least 1000MW nuclear reactor (either boiling or pressurized water) with transmission line of about 200 miles (power grids in between), 400 full time and high wage employees, and 600 indirect jobs. You need 1,500 workers at peak of construction to finish the project in 6 years (longer will cost more), capitalization is $7.5 billion per unit of a 60-yr plant life (to include forecasted inflation and contingencies (reactor fuels for 1-yr, loan interest and more if corruption is included) when put on line and operating.
We don’t have existing nuclear safety regulatory agency to insure and enforce safety standards and operation of a nuclear plant and for training of personnel, testing and acceptance. A know-nothing and incompetent management staff like the San Roque Multipurpose Dam to manage this plant is definitely no-no.
Do we have board certified nuclear engineers to run and operate it? Or experienced local nuclear engineers to perform quality control for design, construction, testing and acceptance.
You need a site by a lake or a big body of water as coolant (Sual shoreline is fine). Also a site to bury deep the spent fuel rods of the reactor (good candidate is the backyard of Gov Spin-off or Marko in Labayug, Sison). We don’t have this luxury when Marcos constructed the Bataan nuclear plant but quack and arbolario engineers did it (project was unfinished fit to entomb Marcos body still in a refrigerated coffin).
We can’t afford to have a repeat of the Chernobyl nuclear incident in Russia or the 3-mile island nuclear plant accident in US. Very scary.
The Korean KEPCO offer of $1 billion to build and operate is a dream come true. This is another repeat of the mothballed Bataan nuclear plant of Marcos (we’re still paying for it at $155,000 a day for the world bank loan) if Gov Spin-off and Rep Marko Cojuangco will agree to the KEPCO offer.
To educate themselves about going nuclear, is for them (Spinoff and Marko) to talk to Mr. Jeff Lyash, Pres and CEO of Progress Energy Florida, USA. He’s an honest, laidback and nuclear-knowledgeable entrepreneur. There’s more to know than meets the eye.
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