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South Korea’s cabinet on Tuesday approved the administration’s energy policy direction, which is aimed at raising the share of nuclear energy in the nation’s total power generation from the current level of 27.4 per cent.

SINGAPORE - Nuclear energy, once deemed unsuitable for Singapore, has been identified as a potential power source for the country by 2050 in a new report published on Tuesday (March 22).

The Philippines and the United States have agreed to strengthen their “strategic civil nuclear cooperation” to improve the country’s energy security and other nonmilitary uses of nuclear power under a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the Department of Energy (DOE) said on Saturday.

Even before President Rodrigo Duterte signed Executive Order No. 164 adding nuclear energy to the country’s power source mix, several countries had already offered to help the Philippines find a way to reduce the cost of electricity.

President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will take part in an online ceremony on Wednesday to launch construction of nuclear energy projects, as the two countries intensify cooperation amid the global economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Key machines for long cherished Rooppur power plant arrive in Mongla

Should the Philippines be the first country in Southeast Asia to go nuclear? Not with weapons to annihilate China – a fruitless task – but to provide us with clean, reliable, safe electricity.

Move seen as facilitating the construction of nuclear power plant in the country.