Korea sets up PH for nuclear sales pitch

 Korea sets up PH for nuclear sales pitch -- My Manila Times column for Thursday, October 10, 2024. The latest chapter in the pathetic saga of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, the Philippines' monument to bad ideas. 

The BNPP figures prominently in my new book, Coaxing a Genie from a Soda Bottle: The Folly of the Philippines' Unceasing Quest for Nuclear Power, which will be available soon through one or more of The Manila Times digital channels. (We're still working that out, apparently.) The book actually discusses the folly of nuclear power in general, but especially in this country, which has precisely zero capabilities or assets to create a nuclear energy program. The 70s-era turd pictured above doesn't count; it has never operated, and never will. 

(Image: The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Photo credit: The Manila Times file.)