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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Taiwan's opposition rejected the construction of NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

The nuclear power station-illustration (photo REUTERS/Thierry Roge)

We hope the Government will soon decide to halted construction NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Taipei (Reuters)-Taiwan's main opposition party, Tuesday, calling for the construction of nuclear power plants (NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS)--long overdue--was discontinued along with the associated safety factor extends unjukrasa.

Build a nuclear installation in the fourth debate, which was never completed for 14 years, heating up along with the addition of the Taiwan Parliament's plan to review the budget reached 40 billion Taiwan dollars (Rp13,57 trillion) for the project.

"We hope the Government will soon decide to halted construction of the NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS rather than approve the supplementary budget," said Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Su Tseng-chang,.

Related concerns Taiwan's Atomic installations peaked after the earthquake had a magnitude of 9 on the Richter scale which struck Japan accompanied by tsunamis on March 11, 2011, thus damaging the nuclear installation in Fukushima.

Based on information Organizer, as many as 50 thousand people from 100 civilian group is scheduled to hold a protest in Taiwan on March 9, the upcoming to urge the Government to learn from the disaster that happened in Japan.

Taiwan's Government previously stated is unlikely to shut down three NUCLEAR PLANTS them or stop the construction of the fourth, as the island is heavily dependent on energy imports.

The construction of the fourth NUCLEAR POWER PLANT began in 1999 and is scheduled to be completed in 2004. But the political debate resulted in the controversial project was delayed so long.

Taiwan's three NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS are owned now-meet about 20 percent of electricity needs of the island. The Government of Taiwan claimed that the installation of anti-seismic design has been applied to the whole of the installation after the disaster that happened in Japan.

As with Japan, the earthquake-prone Taiwan also belongs to because the island lies between two tectonic plates.

In 1999 alone, 7.6 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale killed at least 2,400 people in a natural disaster, the largest of the island's history.
(P012)



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