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Taiwan Learns to Love Nuclear, a Little
Voters have given the alternative energy supply another shot after it fell out of favor following the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in 2011.
Power to the people.
Photographer: Maurice Tsai/Bloomberg
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Just as the sun seems to be setting on nuclear power in rich countries, Taiwan’s voters have delivered it a new lease on life.
A plebiscite on whether to repeal a law requiring the country’s four operating reactors to switch off by 2025 passed with 59.5 percent of the vote in the country’s local elections Saturday. As a result the government will drop plans to implement the target.