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Nuclear power in the Philippines: The plague that poisons Morong! (1983)

Auteur	Bello, Harris, Zarsky
Datum	november 1983
Classificatie	4.16.0.00/14 (FILIPPIJNEN)
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NUCLEAR POWER IN THE PHILIPPINES:
THE PLAGUE THAT POISONS MORONG! *

Walden Bello, John Harris and Lyuba Zarsky
Nautilus Pacific Action Research Center

INTRODUCTION

A complex convergence of strategic, political and economic factors underlies the 
construction of the first nuclear power plant in the Philippines -- a Westinghouse 
Light Water Reactor exported by the U.S. In this essay, we evaluate proponents' 
arguments for nuclear power in the Philippines and demonstrate that the pro-nuclear 
ideology is unconvincing. By examining nuclear power in the context of export-
oriented industrialization, conflicting class interests, and U.S. - Philippine 
relations, we explain why nuclear power was adopted an analysis not easily 
generalizable to other Third World countries which have chosen the nuclear option.

The nuclear deal provoked a broad-based resistance in the Philippines which 
identifies nuclear power with US imperialism. Closely linked to a Pan-Pacific 
self-determination movement opposed to all nuclear intervention, the Philippines' 
resistance contains important lessons -- and opportunities for the US anti-nuclear 
movement and the Left.

*Graffiti on walls in town of Morong, province of Bataan, Philippines.

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