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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rebecca Tan

The nuclear option: could this abandoned plant solve the Philippines’ energy crisis?

Martin San Diego for The Washington Post

They’d grown old together, the nuclear plant and its caretaker.

Willie Torres had been there at the start in the 1970s, when the plant was still being built, a $2.3bn project set to become Asia’s first venture into nuclear energy. He stayed on as a technician when the plant became dogged by scandal. And he remained as one of a handful of staff when, in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, the government ordered it mothballed.

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