Taiwan News
Date: 2018/03/11
By: Central News Agency
TAIPEI (CNA) — An annual anti-nuclear march was held on Ketagalan Boulevard in front
Legislator Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌, front center) (By Central News Agency)
of the Presidential Office Sunday, drawing about 2,000 people calling for an end to the use of nuclear power in Taiwan.
The protest, held on the seventh anniversary of the meltdown of the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Plant in northeast Japan on March 11, 2011, was organized by the National Nuclear Abolition Action Platform, an organization joined by hundreds of anti-nuclear civic groups from around Taiwan.
While pressing the government to decommission nuclear power plants as soon as possible, the other purpose of the Sunday’s demonstration was to prepare people for the potentially high cost of closing the nation’s three operating nuclear power plants and the disposal of nuclear waste, the organizer said. [FULL STORY]