Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/02
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan
Taipei, Aug. 2 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) rebuffed Thursday the argument
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that Taiwan should continue to use nuclear energy until the renewable energy industry matures, saying that Taiwan will not face power shortages after it goes nuclear-free by 2025.
Recently, some supporters of nuclear power have expressed doubt as to whether renewable energy will become a viable alternative source of energy and have advocated the continued use of nuclear energy, Tsai said.
Addressing an international forum on new energy, she described that argument as “specious” and “outworn” compared to advanced concepts in energy development.
Tsai’s remarks came two days after former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and former Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) urged the public to support two referendum petitions that seek to reject Tsai’s policy of decommissioning all Taiwan’s nuclear reactors by 2025.
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