Qualla: Nuclear Power in Taiwan https://qualla.com/nuclear-power-in-taiwan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/r/nuclear-power-in-taiwan-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Nuclear Power in Taiwan https://qualla.com/nuclear-power-in-taiwan Nuclear Power in Taiwan: Introduction https://qualla.com/nuclear-power-in-taiwan/ Photo credit MrWiki321, CC BY-SA 3.0. In the mid-1980s, nuclear reactors generated 52 percent of Taiwan's electricity. By May 2025, they generated none. The arc of nuclear power on this earthquake-prone island spans barely five decades, but it contains a full drama: cold war ambition, engineering hubris, indigenous communities forced to live with radioactive waste they never agreed to store, contaminated apartment buildings whose residents were not told for seven years, and the largest street protests in Taiwan's modern history. When the last reactor at Maanshan disconnected from the grid on 17 May 2025, it closed a chapter that had defined the island's energy politics for a generation.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/r/nuclear-power-in-taiwan-wp/wsqr-nuclear-power-in-taiwan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Nuclear Power in Taiwan: The Atomic Bet https://qualla.com/nuclear-power-in-taiwan/ Photo credit Toach japan, CC BY 3.0. Taiwan's nuclear program began in the 1970s, driven by the same oil crisis fears that pushed countries worldwide toward atomic energy. Three plants were built in rapid succession: Jinshan (commissioned 1978) and Kuosheng (1981) used General Electric boiling water reactors, while ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/r/nuclear-power-in-taiwan-wp/wsqr-nuclear-power-in-taiwan-the-atomic-bet.mp3 0:06 2 full Nuclear Power in Taiwan: Cracks in Confidence https://qualla.com/nuclear-power-in-taiwan/ Photo credit HuKi001, CC BY-SA 4.0. The numbers looked good on paper, but the ground beneath the reactors told a different story. A 2011 report by the Natural Resources Defense Council placed all of Taiwan's nuclear reactors among the twelve most seismically endangered worldwide. A power outage at Maanshan Unit 1 i...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/r/nuclear-power-in-taiwan-wp/wsqr-nuclear-power-in-taiwan-cracks-in-confidence.mp3 0:06 3 full Nuclear Power in Taiwan: The Streets Say No https://qualla.com/nuclear-power-in-taiwan/ Photo credit Toach japan, CC BY-SA 3.0. The 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan galvanized Taiwan's anti-nuclear movement into a mass political force. In March 2013, 68,000 people marched across Taiwan's major cities. In March 2014, the number swelled to 130,000. Protesters carried signs reading "No Nuclear Power" and "We...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/r/nuclear-power-in-taiwan-wp/wsqr-nuclear-power-in-taiwan-the-streets-say-no.mp3 0:06 4 full Nuclear Power in Taiwan: The Waste That Remains https://qualla.com/nuclear-power-in-taiwan/ Photo credit HuKi001, CC BY-SA 4.0. On tiny Lanyu Island off Taiwan's southeastern coast, 100,000 barrels of low-level nuclear waste have sat in a storage facility since 1982. The indigenous Tao community was never consulted about the decision to locate it there. Repeated government promises to remove the waste hav...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/r/nuclear-power-in-taiwan-wp/wsqr-nuclear-power-in-taiwan-the-waste-that-remains.mp3 0:06 5 full Nuclear Power in Taiwan: After the Last Shutdown https://qualla.com/nuclear-power-in-taiwan/ Photo credit HuKi001, CC BY-SA 4.0. When Maanshan Unit 2 went offline on 17 May 2025 at the expiry of its 40-year operating license, Taiwan became one of the few industrialized nations to fully exit nuclear power. A referendum in August 2025 on restarting Maanshan won a majority of votes but failed to meet the turn...

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