Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

====Nuclear Power ====
The [[Bataan Nuclear Power Plant]] (BNPP) is one of Marcos' six planned nuclear power plants.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/397/bataan-plant-sequel|title=The Bataan plant – The sequel|website=World Information Service on Energy|access-date=April 19, 2019}}</ref> It stands in [[Morong, Bataan]], atop Napot Point that overlooks the [[South China Sea]]. Construction completed in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/01/67989/index.htm|title=The $2.2 Billion Nuclear Fiasco |work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |date=September 1, 1986 |access-date=April 19, 2019}}</ref>

In 1974, National Power was negotiating with General Electric. However, Westinghouse energy company, hired Herminio Disini, a friend of Ferdinand Marcos to lobby for them. Westinghouse made a direct offer to supply a plant with two 620 MW reactors at a price of $500 million. The price estimate was raised to around $650 million because of such as fuel and transmission lines.<ref name=":5" /> Westinghouse won the deal. By March 1975, the price increased to $1.1 billion.<ref name=":5" />

Numerous issues regarding safety and usability emerged. After the [[Three Mile Island incident]], construction stopped. A safety inquiry revealed over 4,000 defects.<ref name=":5" /> The site was near the open sea and the then-dormant [[Mount Pinatubo]], and was within 25 miles of three geological faults.<ref name=":5" /> The project was discontinued in 1986 following the [[Chernobyl disaster]].<ref name=":4" />

Costs passed $2.3 million; loans were paid off only in April 2017, although maintaining the plant costs P40 million a year.<ref name=":4" />