On the nature and dispersion of heated and radioactively-polluted effluent from an activated Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

On the nature and dispersion of heated and radioactively-polluted effluent from an activated Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

By KELVIN S. RODOLFO, PhD* Introduction In the 1970s, President Ferdinand Marcos had the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) built in the Bataan town of Morong without evaluating the natural hazards it faces. BNPP sits on Mount Natib, a dormant volcano dissected by the active Lubao Fault in Pampanga and Bataan provinces. From the outset, its technologists and geological consultants were very concerned about the geological hazards at the site [1,2]…