Bishop opposes plan to use nuke power

By Jennelyn Mondejar

DAGUPAN CITY -- Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz has opposed the plan of the government to tap nuclear power for future energy use, saying it is unsafe. "If the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was found to be unsafe before considering in particular its construction on a land with fault lines, what makes it safe now taking into account that the power plant has been mothballed for decades?" Cruz asked in a statement posted at his weblog (www.ovc.blogspot.com).

The bishop also asked the authorities where it plans to throw nuclear waste once it
reopens the nuclear power plant in Morong, Bataan response to the ever increasing prices of oil.

"Where on Earth will the administration have the nuclear waste thrown, disposed, buried, or whatever? It appears that all countries having nuclear waste, consider their disposal a big and deep dark national secret," said Cruz