Russia should end its invasion of Ukraine, cease attacks on nuclear power plants and avoid armed conflict near nuclear facilities, National Nuclear Abolition Action Platform members told a news conference at the Legislative Yuan yesterday.
The group issued a statement on Sunday condemning Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and for risking a nuclear crisis by attacking a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
As of yesterday, more than 50 civic groups in Taiwan have endorsed the statement.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeast Ukraine caught fire after an attack last week, and a rise in radiation has been detected at the defunct Chernobyl
Taipei, March 6 (CNA) An environmental alliance in Taiwan has accused Russia of putting the world "one step away from a nuclear disaster" after invasion forces in Ukraine attacked Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
An environmental alliance in Taiwan has created an online petition to condemn Russia for putting the world “one step away from a nuclear disaster,” and to call on other countries with nuclear weapons to exercise restraint and refrain from making nuclear threats.
The National Nuclear Abolition Action Platform, a nationwide anti-nuclear alliance of more than 100 groups, said on Saturday that a Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine the largest in Europe had triggered a worldwide alarm.
“We were just one step away from a nuclear disaster,” the alliance said after fires broke out at the