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Failure of Nuclear Project: The Best Thing That Happened to the Philippines
Jul 12 2008, Grace

The Philippine Nuclear Power Plant, the country’s most famous ‘white elephant,’ was a $155,000 a day lesson on not mixing politics with nuclear reactors.

For almost 32 years, Filipino taxpayers endured that daily due, in interest, until the...

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