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Safety and costs concerns stall Taiwan’s nuclear program

Taiwan May Delay Startup of its Fourth Nuclear Plant,  BusinessWeek, by Yu-Huay Sun in Taipei January 14, 2011  (Bloomberg) — Taiwan Power Co. may delay the startup of the island’s fourth nuclear plant for the fifth time since the state-run utility proposed the project in 1980………..Taipower, the island’s monopoly grid operator, had postponed four times the start of the No. 4 plant, located 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of Taipei, because of safety concerns and rising construction costs. The project costs about NT$280 billion ($9.65 billion), according to Huang. Taiwan May Delay Startup of its Fourth Nuclear Plant – BusinessWeek

January 15, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Taiwan