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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 876 |
of the Proposed Nuclear Plant in the Country
In connection with your inquiry on the safety of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, you are hereby directed to obtain answers to the following questions:
1.
What specific safeguards, if any, has been taken against repetition in
the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant of the Three-Mile Island nuclear
incident which occurred in Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on March 28,
1979?
2. Who are the
people who will operate the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and what are
their qualifications?
3. In case
there is an accident similar to the Three-Mile Island incident in the
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, what resources, both scientific and
industrial, are available to prevent contamination of the surrounding
areas and atmosphere as well as the people residing thereat? Who will
finance and provide facilities to prevent contamination and how much
would it cost? Who will pay for the damages and costs?
4. Are we
exchanging with or obtaining information on nuclear safeguards from
other countries, like the United States through its Nuclear Regulatory
Commission or the International Atomic Energy Commission which
originally recommended the establishment of the Bataan Nuclear Power
Plant in 1961? What are the maximum and minimum acceptable safeguards
to prevent nuclear contamination.
5. In case
there should be an earthquake similar to the one that hit Mindanao in
August 1977, which was of 7.2 intensity on the Richter scale, will the
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant be able to withstand the shock without leak
or spillage resulting in nuclear contamination? Can it withstand a
tsunami or tidal wave caused by earthquake or tectonic origin similar
to the tsunami that hit Mindanao in August 1977?
6. Is the
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant located in a fault in the earth's surface?
7. What is the
history of earthquakes in the particular site of the Bataan Nuclear
Power Plant?
8. Where, how,
and by whom will nuclear waste be disposed of and what the risk
involved in the disposal procedure?
9. About a
week after the Three-Mile Island incident on March 28, 1979, I directed
the Ministry of Energy to require Westinghouse to send experts to the
Philippines to explain doubts that have arisen especially in the mind
of the President about the safety of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
Why has not Westinghouse done so up to now?
Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.
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