IN PHOTOS: Inside the $2.2-billion Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in 2022
MORONG, Bataan — Even before the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 sealed its fate, there were concerns about the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant's design and location.
The Philippines is a geologically volatile country and the land near the plant is vulnerable to seismic activity.
Mount Pinatubo, a volcano 57 kilometres north of the plant that was thought to be dormant, exploded in 1991, killing 300 people.
Seismologists say the Natib and Mariveles volcanoes nearby are "potentially active".
Visitors are taken up flights of metal stairs and through submarine-like passages to peer over the dormant reactor and fuel rods still wrapped in plastic packaging. — Report by AFP/Allison Jackson; Photos by AFP/Ted Aljibe
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