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These all have similar outputs, between 1,000 and 1,100 megawatts per unit, so the BNPP could be built up to provide about 3,920 MW, Cojuangco told BusinessWorld if three units of AP-1000 were installed, along with the 620-MW capacity of the original BNPP unit. However, he stressed without the BNPP rehabilitation, whatever else might eventually be planned, the country is unlikely to be able to meet its goal of having an operating nuclear power plant by 2032.
Some of these various requirements can be pursued at the same time, but they are all complicated, and if they were completed by the end of 2026, that would be unusually fast.Thus, under an ideal scenario, construction could start at the beginning of 2027; the most recent estimate of how long it would take, shared in connection with the announcement of the KHNP feasibility study, is four to five years.
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