Topic: Nuclear Energy

Map of Content for the nuclear programme: the policy decision to pursue nuclear power, the bodies that plan and regulate it, and the domestic and international instruments that have to exist before a reactor can be licensed. This page links out to existing concepts/, entities/, and programs/ pages — it moves nothing and duplicates nothing.

Belongs here: a page about nuclear power as a policy option, its governance, or its safety regulation. Nuclear’s treatment inside the long-range demand and capacity scenarios belongs with the planning pages in Topic: Planning, Outlooks and Indicators ; its role as a low-carbon alternative to coal belongs in Topic: Climate, Transition and Finance .

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• Nuclear Energy Program (Philippines) — the DOE-chaired programme developing nuclear as a long-term low-carbon option, following the IAEA’s three-milestone framework toward a first 1,200 MW online by 2032 and 4,800 MW by 2050, and included in both Clean Energy Scenarios but not the Reference Scenario; the page to read on the programme’s targets, candidate sites, and milestone sequence.
• Philippine Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (PhilATOM) — the independent quasi-judicial regulator established by RA 12305 with sole jurisdiction over siting, construction, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear and radiation facilities, licensing only light- and heavy-water reactors until other designs accumulate an accident-free record abroad; the page to read on who authorizes a nuclear facility and on what conditions.
• Nuclear Energy Program Inter-Agency Committee (NEP-IAC) and NEPIO — the whole-of-government planning committee created by EO 116 with DOE as chair and 24 member agencies, and the DOE-internal NEPIO that serves as its technical secretariat and drafted the National Position; the page to read on how the programme is coordinated across government, as distinct from how it is regulated.
• Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) — the DOST-attached institute that held nuclear research and radiation safety regulation until RA 12305 moved its regulatory functions to PhilATOM, leaving it research and low- and intermediate-level waste management; the page to read on what the pre-PhilATOM regulator was and what it still does.
• Philippines–US 123 Agreement (2023) — the peaceful-nuclear-cooperation agreement required by Section 123 of the US Atomic Energy Act before US nuclear transfers can proceed, signed November 2023 after the fastest negotiation on record; the page to read on the legal precondition for access to US reactor and SMR vendors.

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