(27 Apr 2024)
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Taipei City, Taiwan – 27 April 2024
1. Various of anti-nuclear power plant activists lying down on a road holding signs; UPSOUND: nuclear alarm being played on speaker and (English) “Nuclear powerplant emergency warning. Please stay indoors and remain calm”
2. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Mrs. Chang (no first name given), 49, Taipei resident:
“Ten years ago, when we protested against nuclear power, we thought that we had stopped it and Taiwan will be free of nuclear power plants. But I never thought that ten years later, my kid is here with me to fight it again. In the beginning of April, we had this big earthquake with a lot of after-shakes. In fact, there were lots of major earthquakes in Taiwan in the past. So, it is very risky for us to have built so many power plants in such a geographical situation.”
3. Various of anti-nuclear power plant activists holding signs
4. Various of anti-nuclear power plant activists lying down on a road holding signs; UPSOUND (Mandarin) “This is an alarm for the Third Nuclear Powerplant. Please follow instructions from radio or TV stations” and UPSOUND (English) “This is a nuclear powerplant emergency warning. Please stay indoors and remain calm.”
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Tu Yo-wen, 49 years old anti-nuke activist in Taipei City:
“Taiwan’s people and government are short on knowledge about tectonic plates. We don’t know which place to store our nuclear wastes, and the government has made no progress in solving this problem. It just shelved it. This is why we should not produce more nuclear waste. I also hope the government finds a way to deal with current nuclear waste in a safer way.”
6. Various of anti-nuclear power plant activists wearing raincoats
STORYLINE:
Around 300 people protested on Saturday against a government plan to extend the use of a nuclear power station in southern Taiwan.
The demonstration was against legislators extending the use of Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant, also known as the “Third Nuclear Powerplant.”
Dressed in rain coats and straw hats, the protesters laid in the rain as speakers played the nuclear leak alarm message.
Taiwan currently has four nuclear power plants, with the first and second in the process of decommissioning, a third one still in use and a fourth whose construction was suspended in April 2014.
Mrs. Chang, a 49-year-old resident who came to the protest with her 10-year-old daughter said, with Taiwan’s history of earthquakes it was too risky to have nuclear power stations.
“Ten years ago, when we protested against nuclear power, we thought that we had stopped it and Taiwan will be free of nuclear power plants. But I never thought that ten years later, my kid is here with me to fight it again," she said.
The island of Taiwan is prone to natural disasters, such as earthquakes and strong typhoons.
A major earthquake in eastern Taiwan on April 3 highlighted the dangers.
AP video by Taijing Wu
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