The outlook for the future of Taiwan’s nuclear power program looks like it will still face the 2025 deadline to phase out all nuclear energy, despite a referendum passed last year that negated the amendment to the Electricity Act that mandated the island to be free of nuclear power by 2025. Although Tsai Ing-wen of the anti-nuclear Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) had been elected president in 2016, on November 24, 2018, pro-nuclear activists in Taiwan won the required 5 million votes needed to pass a referendum to overturn the standing government policy put in place in 2016 to phase out the island’s use of nuclear power. Voters in Taiwan rejected the government’s 2025 nuclear-free homeland policy in a 59% to 41% vote. The majority of voters in the referendum agreed to eliminate the clause requiring that “all nuclear-energy-based power-generating facilities shall completely cease operations by 2025.”
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