MANILA Electric Company (Meralco) is in talks with France for a feasibility study on building conventional nuclear power facilities in the Philippines.

In an interview on Friday night, Meralco executive vice president and COO Ronnie Aperocho said the power distribution firm met with Électricité de France officials "not for small, modular reactors but for bigger, conventional ones with a capacity of 1,200 megawatts (MW)."

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