Taipei Times
Date: Mar 30, 2018
By: Sean Lin  /  Staff reporter

Minister of Economic Affairs Shen Jong-chin (沈榮津) should step down over Guosheng

Taiwan Power chairman Yang Wei-fu, left, and Minister of Economic Affairs Shen Jong-chin attend a meeting of the legislature’s Education and Culture Committee yesterday at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times

Nuclear Power Plant’s No. 2 reactor tripping on Wednesday during test operations, while Premier William Lai (賴清德) should present an ad hoc report on the incident to the Legislative Yuan, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus said yesterday.

During a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee last week Shen assured legislators that no problems would arise after the reactor was reactivated and that if it were to encounter another failure, as it did in May 2016, he would “mete out punishments,” KMT caucus secretary-general Lee Yen-hsiu (李彥秀) told a news conference at the legislature.

However, Wednesday’s incident occurred only about 25 hours after the reactor was restarted following maintenance work and inspections that lasted more than 600 days, Lee said.   [FULL  STORY]