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Lawmaker renews push to integrate nuclear power in PH

A renewed push to integrate nuclear power in the country is presented in Cebu City on during a media roundtable on a proposed nuclear energy program April 23, 2026. Pangasinan 2nd District Rep. Mark Cojuangco called for a shift toward nuclear energy amid rising electricity demand and continued dependence on imported fuel. Cojuangco said nuclear energy could lower electricity costs to about P5.00 per kilowatt-hour, compared with Meralco’s current rate of P13.82 per kWh. He said the reduction could ease household expenses by allowing families to allocate more of their budget to other needs. Advocacy group Alpas Pinas also participated in the session.

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00:00speech by saying what what is it in the Philippine context that makes it necessary for us
00:09to consider nuclear power in the first place we have already given close to 40 years since 1986
00:20we turned our back on nuclear and we have given close to 40 years next year 40 years now
00:29uh for the government and society to try everything else and they have tried everything else
00:38and electricity remains expensive and remains unreliable no matter what they try the only thing
00:49left that they have not tried is nuclear power um what's the context of the Philippines needing
00:58nuclear it has no fossil fuels if we had coal in our mountains that we could mine cheaply
01:07we would not need nuclear power so badly uh when Russia attacked Ukraine
01:19Indonesia unilaterally decided we will not export our coal anymore what happened our leaders had to fly
01:30to Indonesia to practically beg the Indonesian president to reverse his policy because the
01:39Philippine economy would collapse we would be a dead end so I don't think it's good for us to be
01:50so dependent
01:51dependent on foreign countries uh and it's an it's it's a positive country no so uh I would not like
02:04to be so dependent on a foreign country
02:08uh I'll give you the example of Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam went through the Vietnam war they were completely bombed and
02:23destroyed
02:24we were way ahead of Vietnam after the Vietnam war 70s
02:33today the Vietnamese population is still slightly smaller than the Philippine population but today they generate three times more electricity
02:47than we do they are at 68,000 megawatts we are at 22,000 megawatts why they have indigenous gold
03:00they don't have to export their wealth to buy their fuel it is in country
03:09it is in country paikot ikot lang ang kayamanda nila ang pera nila
03:14tayo nage export tayo ng kamagana abroad para kumita kumita ng dollars na kailangan natin pambili sa mga materyales na
03:27wala sa Pilipinas
03:30po ay comparison ng coal sa nuclear so pag tinignan nyo this is to run a 620 megawatt power plant
03:44so around the Philippines I think
03:49we need 50 palamak ships of coal
03:51so to run that we need 50 palamak ships of coal around 2.5 million tons
04:03nasusunogin natin
04:05nasusunogin natin para makapag-create tayo ng electricity
04:08samantala kung nuclear
04:10dahil dense siya
04:11ang kailangan na natin 20 tons
04:13so
04:13kasha sa isang jeep
04:15o sabi nga ni Kong Mark
04:17kasha sa isang ano
04:18sa isang Cebu Pacific na flight
04:21ano na yon
04:22good for a year na yon
04:24or 18 months Kong Mark ano
04:25tingnan din natin ang cost
04:27kasi we are adults in the room
04:30kanina sa UP
04:31yung mga kabataan
04:32hindi pa sila affected
04:33so they're focusing on the technology and science
04:37but we're all adults
04:38so we'll look at the cost
04:39so coal one power plant would cost 600 million
04:44while if we are running a nuclear power plant
04:48it's 20 million
04:49so between 600 million and 20 million
04:53kaya ang nuclear
04:55we are very positive that we can
04:58with nuclear
05:20pingсудombie
05:21n n n
05:21n
05:21n
05:32Pr
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