The President of the Philippines has signed an executive order (EO) to mandate the Department of Energy (DoE) to develop a nuclear power programme and to include nuclear power in the country's power mix, in an attempt to address the planned decline of coal-fired power generation.
The Nuclear Energy Program Inter-Agency Committee (NEP-IAC), which was created in July 2020 to study the adoption of a national nuclear policy and to evaluate the feasibility of adding nuclear to the power mix, considering economic, security, and environmental implications, will have to assess options for integrating nuclear in the power mix. It will have to conduct further studies on whether to revive the 621 MW Bataan nuclear power plant (BNPP, 650 MW gross capacity), which was completed in 1984 after a US$2.3bn investment but was mothballed in 1986 due to safety concerns and issues regarding corruption. A study conducted by Rosatom in 2017 said the rehabilitation of BNPP will require around US$3bn to US$4bn. The government will also have to consider setting up other nuclear power plants and has announced that it is in talks with Russia, South Korea, and the United States on the use of small modular reactor (SMR) technology.
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