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Nuclear Power in Taiwan: A Clash of Views

The article addresses the issue of nuclear energy in Taiwan, which became particularly relevant after the 2016 elections, when the winning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), led by President Tsai Ing-wen, announced the rejection of the use of nuclear energy by 2025. By 2020, adopted against the backdrop of thousands of protests after the Fukushima-1 accident, this course gained many supporters and opponents and became the subject of a political struggle between the currently ruling DPP and its rival Kuomintang. The paper analyzes the reasoning by the parties, describes the opposing organizational structures and their relations with political forces. Three main general issues are in the focus of debates: security, ecology and economics. In security matters, opponents of nuclear energy in Taiwan use the Chernobyl accident and Fukushima-1 as an example, talking about the danger of nuclear energy per se, the inability to control it and ensure an appropriate level of safety of nuclear facilities. Supporters argue that the safety systems of nuclear power plants in Taiwan are superior to those at Fukushima-1, and the company itself is constantly upgrading them. In the ecology sector, the most acute issue is low-level nuclear waste disposal, and the opponents pay much attention to reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. In the area of economic matters, there is a lack of reserve capacity in Taiwan, and the parties emphasize the relatively high cost of alternative environmentally friendly energy sources. Anti-nuclear activists talk about the high costs of building and operating nuclear power plants, arguing that in the long run, nuclear power plants lose out to renewable energy sources both economically and technologically, considering atomic power as an outdated industry.