Nuclear plans must be ended: groupsSAFETY CONCERNS: A retired professor said ‘convenient, safe and waste-free nuclear energy is illusory,’ and that safety and cost-effectiveness are mutually exclusive goalsBy Wu Po-hsuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerProposals to revisit nuclear energy use in Taiwan should be scrapped, experts and groups opposing nuclear power said yesterday on the 15th anniversary of the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster in Japan. “They have a high risk of incidents and the problem of nuclear waste disposal remains unsolved.”Masashi Goto, a Japanese nuclear energy engineer, speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Nuclear power plants have an inherent risk from malfunctions, even in the absence of natural disasters, he said. The safety margin requirements of nuclear power and the pursuit of cost-effectiveness are contradictory requirements that cannot both be met, she said. The Taiwan Environmental Protection Union wrote in a statement that it “strongly condemns” the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ decision to submit plans to restart two nuclear plants in Taiwan.

Source: Taipei Times March 11, 2026 17:43 UTC