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The Philippines is four years away from cheap electricity — if it chooses nuclear, according to Rep. Mark Cojuangco

The Philippines could dramatically reduce its electricity costs by shifting to nuclear power, with fuel imports for a 1,000-megawatt nuclear plant costing only $20 million a year compared to $400 million for an equivalent coal or gas facility, Pangasinan Rep. Mark Cojuangco said Saturday. “Twenty times cheaper,” Cojuangco, chairman of the House Special Committee on Nuclear Energy, said in an interview on…

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