The failure of Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) to quickly respond to disinformation about the power outage on Thursday last week created panic among the public and exposed its lack of a well-rounded risk management system, the New Power Party (NPP) caucus told a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Within two hours of the nationwide power failure, local news media had identified three possible causes for the incident, NPP Legislator Claire Wang (王婉諭) said.
Some said that it was caused by problems at Taoyuan’s Datan Power Plant, others attributed it to errors at Pingtung County’s Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant, while still others blamed
A majority of voters yesterday rejected a proposal to restart construction on the mothballed Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮), with 4,262,451 votes against and 3,804,755 in favor.
Initiated by nuclear power advocate Huang Shih-hsiu (黃士修), the referendum asked voters: “Do you agree that the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant should be activated for commercial operations?”
The plant was most recently mothballed in 2015 when Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) was president, one year after former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman Lin I-hsiung (林義雄) staged a hunger strike against the plant’s construction.
The referendum has
CLEAR RESULT: An opponent of nuclear power said the plant was a symbol of the struggles of the past, while the initiator of the question suggested a new reactor on-siteBy Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter