IAEA was formed to help in transfer of technology and counsel countries in view of nuclear power generation, and to discover whether a country is breaking any safety or environmental standards connected to nuclear generation.

The team will make an advice whether to restore the BNPP to its former status or to change it from nuclear power plant to a plant that utilizes natural gas. If both are not advisable, get rid of it as worthless thoroughly.

Studies on whether or not it should be moreover thought over carefully are being made by the government. Options are open and one of the options is to obtain and train people in nuclear technology for a possible situation in the future.

The government is on the right track in being open to the options in order to choose the more economical, but safer power plant to serve as alternate to the old one. The government must be ready to prevent power shortage so that deleterious power shortage happened in 1992 may not b repeated.

[Via Philippine Daily Inquirer]