IN a television interview last week, Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) Director Carlo Arcilla made the shocking suggestion that the nuclear waste repository that would be needed if the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is rehabilitated and put into operation could be located on Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). In our view, there could hardly be a worse idea for handling nuclear waste than this, and it is deeply disturbing that the head of the country's only nuclear agency would offer such an irresponsible solution.

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