On April 26, 1986 at 01:23:43, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine suffered a cataclysmic melt down. To this day, it is considered the worst nuclear power plant disaster to have ever occurred, and it is the only registered level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
On the eve of the Chernobyl remembrance day, I came across an article in the BusinessMirror where Acting Energy Secretary Jose Ibazeta was quoted as saying:
"There’s nothing wrong with nuke [plants] except claims that it may be in an earthquake [fault line]. And so far, after all the tremors we have had in the past 20 years, the pavement of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant did not even crack,” said Ibazeta, adding there should be no fear of having nuclear energy.
