00:00The National Power Corporation says around 80% of the people who built the United Arab Emirates Baraka Nuclear Energy
00:08Plant are Filipinos.
00:10Napakor points out the pool of nuclear-capable overseas Filipino workers and the challenge of rebuilding the nuclear industry on
00:17Filipino soil.
00:18Napakor President and CEO Coco Nograles says many of our nuclear-trained personnel have since retired.
00:24Others took their expertise overseas where Filipino engineers and skilled workers have contributed to nuclear facilities around the world.
00:31Nograles says 80% of the people who built the four 1,400-megawatt nuclear facilities in Baraka are Filipinos,
00:39which he attributes to Filipinos possibly doing nuclear again.
00:43As of 2024, the Philippine government said that around 1,000 Filipinos were working at Baraka.
00:48The Philippines once had its own crop of nuclear-trained personnel for the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, but the plant
00:54has been mothballed since 1986 over public safety concerns.
00:58Nograles says preparing the Filipino workforce could not wait until a new plant is already going up.
01:04The Napakor President adds building a nuclear power plant is easier than operating one.
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