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MANILA - The Department of Energy (DOE) expects the Office of the President to release an executive order (EO) on the possible use of nuclear power for the country's energy security. "We heard from the Office of the President that the policy is going to be approved soon. It's an executive order," DOE Undersecretary Gerardo Erguiza Jr. told reporters in a press conference Wednesday. In 2020, President Rodrigo Duterte signed EO 116 that created the Nuclear Energy Program Inter-Agency Committee (NEP-IAC) composed of 17 agencies studying the potential of nuclear power in the coun...

Three senatorial aspirants have expressed openness to the proposal to revive the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, but all of them stressed that safety, necessity, and affordability must first be ensured.

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on January 19, 2021 at 5:03 pm The plan to have nuclear energy as one of the country’s power sources is now awaiting President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision, according to Energy Sec. Alfonso Cusi. Cusi said the Department of Energy (DOE) submitted the proposed nuclear power plan to the chief executive last Friday (January 15), a little over a week before the deadline set by Executive Order (EO) 116. The EO, signed by Duterte on July 24, 2020, gave the DOE-chaired Nuclear Energy Program Inter-Agency Committee (NEP-IAC) six months to come up with a plan to conduct a study and determine the ...

DFA EXEC SAYS By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News Published January 14, 2021 5:42pm Updated January 14, 2021 10:12pm Then DFA secretary (now Taguig Rep) Alan Peter Cayetano signs the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 20, 2017. Karl Norman Alonzo/PPD The pending Senate concurrence to the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) would not prevent the Philippines from exploring nuclear energy, an official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday. "This does not affect our current...