Philippine Nuclear Power Station Transforms into Tourist Attractions

Philippine Nuclear Power Station Transforms into Tourist Attractions The Bataan nuclear power plant in the Philippines has not been produced once since it was built in 1984. After leaving this large project idle for many years, it became a unique tourist attraction in Bataan Province.

Ticket price is 50 cents. It takes 3 hours by car from Manila, the capital of the Philippines, to reach the Bataan nuclear power station in Bataan Province. The nuclear power plant was built on a hill overlooking the sea and the ticket price was 20 pesos (about 50 cents).

Standing on a steel bridge inside a nuclear power plant, visitors can see nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel rods that are not opened even by plastic packages a few meters away. Next to the reactor there is a passage from which visitors can walk into the control center, as if they had returned to the tunnel nearly 30 years ago.

The control center houses analog telephones, dot-matrix printers, desk-sized computers, etc. These things that are obsolete in the eyes of tourists are called advanced equipment. Since the nuclear power plant has never been activated, the indicator of the instrument showing the power generation has always pointed to the number “zero”.

After visiting the nuclear power station, tourists can go to the exclusive beach of the nuclear power station to swim, visit the turtles and enjoy the barbecue. The environmental monitoring station for nuclear power station facilities has now been converted into a hotel that can accommodate 45 guests at the same time. A room that can accommodate 7 people costs $65 per night.

Donnies Ghana, spokesperson of the State Power Company, who is not concerned about the radiation protection of the nuclear power plant, said that chances of visiting the nuclear power plant are rare, and the opportunity to see nuclear reactors is even rarer. Therefore, most people see the nuclear power station feeling “excited”.

Because there is no uranium in the nuclear power plant, visitors do not have to worry about radiation.

The Batam nuclear power plant cost 2.3 billion U.S. dollars when Ferdinand Marcos took power and has a designed capacity of 620 megawatts.

After the resignation of the Marcos government, coincided with a major leakage accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the global questioned the rising sound of nuclear power safety. The Philippine authorities have long-term closure of the Bataan nuclear power plant due to corruption in the nuclear power plant project and the danger of a nuclear explosion in the seismic activity at the nuclear power plant. The National Energy Corporation was assigned to take charge of the routine maintenance of the nuclear power plant.

The Bataan nuclear power plant did not produce economic benefits, but instead spent more than 10,000 US dollars a day on maintenance. Ghana said it hopes that tourism revenue from nuclear power plants will offset some of its maintenance expenditure.

Nuclear power station rebirth is not easy. Bata nuclear power station was opened to tourists after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power station was hit by a nuclear and tsunami damage in March this year. The National Power Corporation hopes that the opening of the nuclear power plant will dispel the concerns of the Philippine public about the safety of nuclear power and promote the restart of the Bataan nuclear power plant.

“We have to prove that this nuclear power plant is different from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, and what happened there will not happen here,” Ghana said.

The Bataan nuclear power plant engineer and tour guide Kola Poldu Youte said that according to the results of a research conducted by an energy company in South Korea in 2009, it will take four years to restart the Bataan nuclear power plant and it will cost US$1 billion to upgrade equipment.

The Philippine Congress has received a proposal to rebuild the nuclear power plant. However, energy analysts believe that the hope of restarting nuclear power plants within five years is slim.

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