The catastrophe to come — nuclear power plants

WHEN former president Rodrigo Duterte signed an executive order that allowed nuclear power plants to be considered as a source of electricity generation in the Philippines, a wave of concern swept through the minds and hearts of the security, environmental, medical and renewable- energy thinking community.

Department of Energy officials started to talk about the possibility of building several advanced small modular reactors, including floating SMRs, all around the Philippines. We surmise that the hearts of the energy tycoons and political cronies beat faster.