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Lawmakers of the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) started to occupy the legislative floor in the early evening, bringing sleeping bags and preparing to spend the night in the chamber.

DPP caucus whip Wu Ping-jui said his caucus made a decision to enter the floor early in order to occupy the podium overnight. Wu said his colleagues will not “give an inch” if a motion is called Friday, as announced by the KMT majority…………

Critics of the proposed referendum have said that the high threshold for a vote to be carried means the government will have its way, which is to continue with the project in New Taipei City.

Meanwhile, as a showdown loomed in the Legislature, activists stepped up their anti-nuclear protests around Taipei Thursday……

Tsui Su-hsin, secretary-general of the Green Citizens’ Action Alliance, which organized the protest, said the construction of the fourth nuclear plant is laden with problems and the government should stop its construction to prevent bigger risks in the future………….

Earlier that day, Greenpeace released a research report that said areas of northern Taiwan in the vicinity of the nuclear plant would suffer a potential economic loss of NT$33.92 trillion (US$1.13 trillion) per year if a nuclear disaster were to occur.

It mentioned the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan as an example, saying that compensation for the 2011 disaster has so far reached 2.64 trillion yen (US$26.77 billion). The nationalization of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. means that taxpayers have to cover the losses, it added.

Taipower, on the other hand, would not be able to cover such losses, the groups said……….. http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201308010027.aspx