A legal entanglement concerning intellectual property (IP) related to a reactor design, which South Korea encountered with the American firm Westinghouse Electric Company, continues to impede the targeted feasibility study intended to evaluate the potential for reactivating the mothballed...
Ronnie L. Aperocho, Meralco executive vice president and COO In line with the country’s nuclear energy push, Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) is looking for partners to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) in the Philippines.Ronnie L. Aperocho, executive vice president and chief operating...
HOUSTON – The world is going all-in on tripling nuclear power capacity by 2050, and at the forefront of this grand race are Silicon Valley’s hyperscalers and global corporate behemoths that have been wagering heavily on uranium-powered fleets to supercharge artificial intelligence (AI)...
The much-anticipated fresh round of extensive feasibility study for the targeted revival of the 620-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) will be facing delays due to “compliance concerns” that the governments of the Philippines and South Korea have yet to accomplish.In an exclusive...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is eyeing to bridge ‘prospective business partnerships’ for targeted rollout of nuclear power projects in the Philippines during the country’s hosting of the International Nuclear Supply Chain Forum to be held in Manila this November.The event will bring together...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is ramping up its investment on enhancing the professional skills of prospective workers in the resuscitated nuclear power industry of the Philippines through the new scholarship deals it inked with Canadian and American universities.The...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is extending its investment interest to other nuclear technologies like small modular reactors (SMR) and conventional nuclear fleets – and that could include the planned repowering of the idled Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) if the...
The government is planning to update nuclear agreements with at least five countries in accordance with the nuclear renaissance pathway, as fleshed out in the newly crafted 2024-2050 Philippine Nuclear Energy Program.The updating of multilateral and bilateral nuclear covenants, according to...
The US government is amenable to firming up an agreement on taking back ‘spent fuel’ that had already been irradiated once fissioned or burnt in reactor for nuclear technologies that American suppliers will be deploying to the Philippines.In a roundtable discussion with the Philippine media, US...
The Philippines is eyeing robust jumpstart on knowledge transfer as well as training on gaining and ramping up technical expertise on nuclear development and operations following the effectivity of the 123 Agreement with the United States.This has been indicated to the media by Energy Secretary...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) takes a major stride on the reboot of the country’s aim for a deep well of expertise on nuclear power engineering and development, as it started sending its nuclear scholars and interns to preeminent partner-universities in the United States...
The heightened interest of the Philippines on nuclear energy as part of its long-term energy solution has so far been whipping up the curiosity of neighbors in the Southeast Asian region to also weigh in this technology into their energy mix.During the Indo-Pacific Business Forum, Energy Secretary...
