Taiwan ends its nuclear era, but energy security concerns linger

Opposition seeks revival and extensions through referendum

20250516 Anti-nuclear Activists Stage Protest

Protesters marched 70 km from Gongliao, the site of a nuclear power plant, to the Presidential Office in Taipei, mimicking an escape from a nuclear explosion ahead of a referendum in December 2021. © Getty Images

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KAOHSIUNG -- Taiwan has formally phased out nuclear power, as the island democracy's last reactor undergoes decommissioning on Saturday amid a growing debate about its energy security policy in the face of rising threats from China.

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