Sen. Bongbong Marcos, Guest Speaker at LSPU

Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. attended the "Engineering Seminar and Forum" last Tuesday, January 12, held at the Laguna State Polytechnic University (LSPU) in Sta. Cruz. The senator was at the event as a guest speaker and answered questions from students. Perhaps the most notable of these questions was about the revival of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). According to Senator Marcos, he would back the revival of the BNPP as long as three conditions were met. He stated, "The cost of power must be reduced, power supply will stabilize and it will not contribute to the destruction of the environment." Construction of the power plant started in 1976 in Morong, Bataan, and was completed in 1984 under the administration of the senator's father, the late former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. However, operations never began and the plant was mothballed in 1986 because of rising safety concerns especially after the Chernobyl incident that occured in April of that year. “Kailangan pag-aralan natin mabuti. Kailangang desisyunan at seryoso ang pamahalaan na tingnan kung talagang maaari pang gamitin ang Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Kung maaari pang gamitin, gawin na natin,” said Senator Marcos. The senator is running for Vice President in the upcoming elections this 2016.

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