All quiet here: Torres walking past the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant during a tour of the compound in Morong town, Bataan province. — Reuters
MANILA: Filipino Wilfredo Torres was hired as a technician for South-East Asia’s only nuclear power plant in the 1980s, but has spent the past decade giving guided tours at the never-used facility.
The Philippines splashed out US$2.3bil (RM9bil) on the 621-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, but mothballed it after the collapse of a dictatorship and the devastating Chernobyl disaster.
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