Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party codified anti nuclear dogma into its founding Charter in 1986. Its arch rival, the Nationalist and at the time authoritarian Kuomintang, wisely built nuclear power plants as part of a breakneck industrialization program. When the DPP won power in 2016, it legislated a nuclear free homeland and began retiring the country's coal plants. Phasing out coal made sense. Replacing nuclear with LNG much less. So like Germany, Taiwan can't rely solely on renewables. (29:07–29:18)
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Asserts that Taiwan's DPP legislated a nuclear-free policy and began retiring coal plants in 2016.
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