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Welcome to Taiwan, an island located in the South China Sea, which struggles for its independence over the past fifty years. The small island with its capital in Taipei has a population of approximately 23.5 million people and has FOUR nuclear power plants.
It is hard to imagine why a nation with the size of a big Chinese city needs four Nuclear power plants. To compare, China with a population of 1.3 billion people has 33 nuclear reactors.
In the past week, campaigners against nuclear energy went on the streets of Taipei to push their authorities to stop financing the fourth nuclear reactor. Most of the demonstrators are saying that maintaining so many nuclear plants and stations is ‘just a waste of money’ and ‘is dangerous in case of accidents’.
After tragic accidents at Japanese nuclear station in Fukushima — which happened 8 years ago — Taiwanese politicians and activists began being cautious with funding of nuclear energy facilities.
A coalition of environmental groups gathered in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei and put up flyers that read: “Scrap the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant” and “Mothballing is unnecessary,” urging lawmakers to block a $42.05 million budget to maintain the unfinished nuclear plant, which was mothballed in July last year following protests.
Instead of funding nuclear energy, politicians and campaigners suggested an expansion of the power generation facilities of three coal-fired and natural gas-fired power plants.
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