Sunday, May 25, 2025

A referendum for nuke

Honestly, I really don't want to keep discussing whether nuclear power is expensive or not; what to do about high-level, medium-level, and low-level nuclear waste with nowhere to dispose of or store it (the NIMBY problem); or whether Taiwan, with its frequent magnitude 5-7.x earthquakes and numerous fault lines, is even suitable for continuing to operate old nuclear power plants that have had many issues and are already decommissioned or scheduled for decommissioning.

But the KMT and TPP parties simply refuse to let the third Nuclear Power Plant be decommissioned, and now they even want a referendum to keep it running. It's truly infuriating. Please don't force people to accept problems that cannot be solved by science and technology now. Just because you win a vote doesn't mean the scientific and technical problems are magically resolved.

I saw a few lines today that I found quite amusing regarding nuclear power:

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The pro-nuclear side has always had a logical dilemma:

  1. Taipower is terrible and full of lies.
  2. Taipower-managed nuclear power plants are super safe and will have no problems.
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其實不想一天到晚討論核能發電到底貴不貴、低中高階核廢料找不到地方處置及儲存要怎麼辦(NIMBY)、常常發生5-7.x級地震且擁有超多斷層的臺灣是否適合讓過去發生過許多問題且已停機及除役的老舊核電廠繼續運轉,但是白藍政黨就是完全不想讓核三廠除役,還要公投讓核三廠繼續運轉,真是令人厭煩。科學技術上無法解決的問題,請不要繼續強人所難,並不是說投票投贏了,科學技術的問題就解決了。今天看到下面的幾句話,覺得很有趣。

關於核能,擁核派一直有個邏輯上的難題:
1. 台電很爛。
2. 台電管理的核電廠很安全,不會有問題。

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