Taiwan may restart nuclear power plant in 2028, minister says

This is a fairly significant policy shift - the incumbent DPP has historically been very anti-Nuclear due to the Taiwan's nuclear program historic links to authoritarian rule back in the 1980s along with fear after the Fukushima disaster back in 2011. The party itself was founded in part due to opposition to the Lungmen project back in the early 1980s [0]

[0] - https://www.tepu.org.tw/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/%E5%8F%B0...

Neither of those are sensible reasons to not use nuclear power.

Yet those reasons are why anti-Nuclear sentiment is mainstream in Taiwan.

The fact that the DPP is contravening one of it's core tenets since it was founded in 1986 is a massive policy shift, as a major reason the party was formed was due to mass opposition to the Lungmen nuclear project.

It's the equivalent of the modern DNC choosing to drop support for the ACA or the modern GOP choosing to support Roe vs Wade.

> Yet those reasons are why anti-Nuclear sentiment is mainstream in Taiwan.

A "sentiment" is just manufactured by politicians and the media. I would say if you are one of the only place who can build and run a 2nm process node, a nuclear power plant should not scare you too much.

The DPP has been very dumb regarding pure economic policies. This is one of the reason they now have western countries level growth.

They got into the whole renewable energy narrative but they forgot one of the reason for the success of Taiwan is due to the fact that they largely subsidized energy.

Electricity in Tawain was (or still is?) incredibly cheap and they even subsidized gas.

It is good that they stopped their irrational opposition to the best source of electricity available.