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
The power plant in 2011
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
Chernobyl disaster
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On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. With dozens of direct casualties and thousands of health complications stemming from the disa
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant
…Morong, Bataan. It was the Philippines' only attempt at building a nuclear power plant. It was mothballed due to safety concerns in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986 and issues regarding corruption in the Philippines. In 1958, the Philippine nuclear program started with the creation of the Philippine…
Reactor 4 several months after the disaster. Reactor 3 can be seen behind the ventilation stack, Reactors 1 and 2 in the background.
Firefighter Leonid Telyatnikov being decorated for bravery
Image showing a graphite moderator block ejected from the core
Pripyat with the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the distance