Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/08/28
By: Milly Lin and S.C. Chang
Taipei, Aug. 28 (CNA) Premier Lin Chuan’s (林全) plan to reactivate the No. 1 generator at the First
former Presidential Advisor Rex How (CNA file photo)
Nuclear Power Plant in June was prompted mainly by a power shortage “crisis” engineered by Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), according to former Presidential Advisor Rex How (郝明義).
In a Facebook post on Saturday, How suspected that Taipower deliberately put 10 percent of the nation’s aging electricity generators on an annual repair schedule on May 31, when the temperature hit 37.3 degrees Celsius, creating a near-shortage of power supply.
As the nation was on the brink of power rationing, Lin ordered Taipower to reactivate the No. 1 reactor at the First Nuclear Power Plant which had already been idled for 18 months, How said.
The decision triggered protests from anti-nuclear power groups which have been calling for a nuclear-free Taiwan, a proposal that has become the policy of President Tsai Ing-wen’s administration. [FULL STORY]
