Ilocos power utility backs nuke option

Ilocos power utility backs nuke option

CALASIAO, Pangasinan —Reviving the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, which the previous Marcos administration in 1979 billed as a long-term solution to the country’s growing power demand and dependence on imported oil, got the support of the Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative (INEC). In his lecture “Powering the Countryside: Rural Electrification in the Marcos Senior Era, The Nuclear Option” at the Mariano Marcos State University on Wednesday, INEC General Manager Cipriano Martinez III described the mo