"I have an open mind about it. Let us think about it. It's the cheapest form of power and [it is for long term]," Roxas, the Liberal Party's candidate for vice president, told reporters here on Saturday.
He said the Philippines' neighboring countries were either using or open to the use of nuclear power.
"Dapat malawak ang pagtingin dito, pag-aralan natin ito (We should keep an open mind about this issue. We should study this)," Roxas said.
He said China has been planning to establish 30 nuclear power plants in the next 10 years. Korea and Taiwan, he said, have been relying on nuclear power plants for their energy needs.
Earlier, the Pangasinan provincial board endorsed a proposal by Rep. Mark Cojuangco for the province to host two nuclear power plants.
Cojuangco said building nuclear power plants would push Pangasinan's progress and lower electricity rates in the province.
But some groups and officials in Pangasinan have opposed Cojuangco's proposal, citing the lack of public consultation and the supposed danger the nuclear power plants pose to the province's environment.
Roxas said studying the feasibility of tapping nuclear power for the country and the calls to rehabilitate the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, which was mothballed in 1986 due to questions of safety, should be separated.
He said he would support the creation of an independent commission composed of nuclear scientists and physicists to study how the country could benefit from nuclear energy.
"Let us use new technologies to benefit us. Let us just be very sure that we will be safe because if there is an accident, the damage will be enormous," Roxas said.
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