Results of a survey released Wednesday show more than 50 percent of people want a nuclear-free Taiwan.

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/06/23
By: Juvina Lai,Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – According to a survey published Wednesday, more than 50 percent of respondents said they opposed the idea of paying higher electricity rates in return for the elimination of nuclear power.

The government has set 2025 as the year by which Taiwan should become nuclear-free.

About 52.6 percent did not agree to pay higher power prices for the goal of making Taiwan nuclear free, but about 42.3 percent of the people said they were willing to do so, according to the results of the survey by the National Policy Foundation, a Taipei-based think tank affiliated with the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), to gauge the public’s opinion of the Democratic Progressive Party government’s energy policy.

The survey also revealed that 53.9 percent of the people said they did not agree with the idea of shutting down Taiwan’s three nuclear power plants, while 33 percent still agreed.    [FULL  STORY]