For four decades, a sealed concrete structure in Bataan has stood as a monument to abandoned ambition — a nuclear plant built but never lit, a $2.3 billion relic of a different era. Now, as the Philippines confronts volatile energy markets and a growing hunger for stable power, the government is quietly asking whether the past might yet serve the future. The question is not merely technical; it is a reckoning with memory, risk, and what a nation owes itself in the face of uncertainty.