The Struggle Against Taiwan’s Anti-Nuclear Tide

摘要

The victory of the center-left Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in both the presidential and parliamentary elections in January was a massive blow to nuclear proponents in Taiwan, who had long relied on the right-wing Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) to advance their objectives. The KMT had constructed the island state’s three nuclear power plants under martial law back in the 1970s and 1980s, and had used its control over the national legislature to overturn an attempt by the first DPP government to cancel the Lungmen (or “Nuclear Four”) newbuild project in October 2000.