The anti-nuclear movement in the Philippines aimed to stop the construction of nuclear power facilities and terminate the presence of American military bases, which were believed to house nuclear weap
The abandoned Bataan Nuclear Power Plant photographed in 2011
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant
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The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant on the Bataan Peninsula, 100 kilometers west of Manila, Philippines. Completed but never fueled, it is located on a 3.57 km2 government reservat
Anti-nuclear movement in the Philippines
…intervention from the United States, which was a staunch issue among nationalists. A focal point for protests in the late 1970s and 1980s was the proposed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), which was built by ousted President Ferdinand Marcos but never operated. The NFPC was formed by Senator Lorenzo M. Tañada, considered the father…
Critics of the Bataan Nuclear power plant at an assembly in a basketball court around the compound of the Morong Parish Church, 2009
Marcos Clark Air Base cropped