Philippines: country on a fault line

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Run time: 02:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3uWMmC1ED4   Posted on YouTube: March 19, 2011 By YouTube Member: AlJazeeraEnglish Views on YouTube: 309   Posted on DU: March 19, 2011 By DU Member: DeSwiss Views on DU: 529

 
- The "good" news is that they don't have a functioning nuclear plant.

Construction on the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant began in 1976. Following the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the United States, construction on the BNPP was stopped, and a subsequent safety inquiry into the plant revealed over 4,000 defects.<1> Among the issues raised was that it was built near major earthquake fault lines and close to the then dormant Pinatubo volcano.<2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Nuclear_Power_Plant