Philippines' Marcos says 'perhaps time to revisit nuclear energy'

MANILA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who declared a national energy emergency this year, said on Monday (Jul 27) that nuclear power might hold answers for a country paying the highest electricity prices in the region.Marcos made the suggestion in a wide-ranging State of the Nation speech that placed spiralling energy costs and inflation, driven by the war in the Middle East, centre-stage."Perhaps it is time for us to revisit nuclear energy production," Marcos told the joint session of Congress."We will ensure it is safe. We will ensure the good benefits of nuclear energy will be explained properly to the public." The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant - the only nuclear power plant in the Philippines - was completed in the 1980s but never launched due to corruption issues and safety conc