EPA minister puts career on line over nuclear power issue

Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/22
By:  Central News Agency

EPA Minister Lee Ying-yuan (李應元) (By Central News Agency)
Taipei, April 22 (CNA) The Cabinet-level Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) head has vowed that if it is decided via referendum to open the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, which has been mothballed since 2015, he will resign.

If the people vote to have the nuclear power plant rather than the coal-fired Shen’ao Power Plant, “I will leave office,” said Lee Ying-yuan (李應元) in an interview with CNA on Friday.

According to Lee, people are “too oblivious” to remember their strong opposition to the use of nuclear power in the wake of the catastrophic Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in northeastern Japan in 2011, the world’s worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl accident of 1986.    [FULL  STORY]