Who Says There Is No Solution to the Nuclear Waste Problem? Scholars Challenge the Cabinet to a Debate

Who Says There Is No Solution to the Nuclear Waste Problem? Scholars Challenge the Cabinet to a Debate

Source: United Daily News

February 19, 2019

The Fair Winds Foundation and Ma Ying-jeou Foundation yesterday indicated that they would not rule out introducing a plebiscite proposal on de-mothballing Nuclear Power Plant No. 4. Cabinet spokesperson Kolas Yotaka responded by saying that we should ask those who wanted to continue using nuclear power beyond 2025 to answer the question: Where would we put the nuclear waste that would be produced endlessly?

Lee Min, dean of the College of Atomic Sciences at Tsinghua University and one of the proponents of the plebiscite proposal on using nuclear power to nurture green energy, yesterday posted an official document dated the 13^th on his Facebook page from the Republic of China Nuclear Energy Society addressed to the Cabinet, issuing a challenge to a debate.

The official document asks that the Cabinet arrange a venue and time to allow the Academic Committee on Radioactive Waste Management and the Committee on Nuclear Fuel and Recycling, both under the Nuclear Energy Society, to explain to the Cabinet and society the current situation of the development of nuclear waste disposal technology, and to provide the Cabinet and its spokesperson correct information.

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