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Anti nuclear movement in Taiwan is now mainstream

Protest-No!Taiwan’s nuclear power plants are magnets for protesters Ralph Jennings The Christian Science Monitor July 28, 2014 “……The anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan, once a fringe movement, is going mainstream. President Ma Ying-jeou’s government promised to freeze construction on the island’s fourth nuclear power plant this April, after tens of thousands turned out to protest in Taipei. The temporary freeze takes effect this month.

Nearly 59 percent of people polled in April by Taiwan’s Commonwealth magazine, a politics and economics publication, said they wanted the fourth nuclear power plant stopped because they fear a disaster akin to Japan’s 2011 Fukushima earthquake and reactor meltdown. Like Japan, Taiwan sits in a highly seismic area.

July 30, 2014 - Posted by | opposition to nuclear, Taiwan

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