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(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “Workshop outputs of the different subcommittees were consolidated and integrated in three documents submitted to the President. These documents were a Memorandum to the President; a Proposed Executive Order adopting a National Position for a Nuclear Energy Program; and a Nuclear Energy Program Inter-Agency Committee (NEP-IAC) Report to the President,” DoST said. NEP-IAC, tasked mainly to study the adoption of a national position on nuclear power, is chaired by the Department of Energy (DoE) with the DoST as vice chair. The committee was formed under Executive...

THE proposal to include nuclear energy as one of the country’s energy sources is now awaiting the approval of President Rodrigo Duterte, according to a government official. Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said the Department of Energy (DoE) has already submitted the nuclear power plan to the President last Friday. The submission is a requirement stated in Executive Order (EO) 116, signed by Duterte in July, which mandates a government study to determine and develop the national position for a nuclear power program in the country. For this purpose, the Nuclear Energy Program Inter-Agency Co...