No to nuclear energy

Filipino demonstrators hold umbrellas with slogans on them during a protest outside a conference on the prospects of using nuclear power in the Asia-Pacific region in Manila, Philippines, today. The group Philippine Movement for Climate Justice said the conference was a move by the government to pursue its plan to go into nuclear energy by reviving the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, a project initiated by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, which put the country millions of dollars in debt. The group was also concerned about the possibility of nuclear meltdown if the plant was brought into use. The Philippines is hosting the International Atomic Energy Agency and International Framework for Nuclear Energy Co-operation talks until Thursday.