Taiwan presses ahead with home-built nuclear power plant despite safety fears
The Guardian
Even the head of the safety department at Taiwan's Atomic Energy Council, has doubts about the country's fourth nuclear plant, suggesting it no longer enjoys much support. But since the presidential election on 14 January, plans to finish Nuclear Power ...
Taiwan to forge ahead with nuclear power?
UPI.com
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Taiwan plans to go forward with its fourth nuclear power plant amid safety concerns. Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, winning a second term in office last month, said he is committed to having the No.Japan Ignored Nuclear Risks, Official Says
By HIROKO TABUCHI
Published: February 15, 2012
TOKYO — In surprisingly frank public testimony on Wednesday, Japan’s nuclear safety chief said the country’s regulations were fundamentally flawed and laid out a somber picture of a nuclear industry shaped by freewheeling power companies, toothless regulators and a government more interested in promoting nuclear energy than in safeguarding the health of its citizens.
Itsuo Inouye/Associated Press
In his testimony on Wednesday, Haruki Madarame, Japan's nuclear safety chief, described a complacency with lax standards.
The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, stricken by an earthquake and a tsunami last March, has led to widespread criticism of nuclear officials for their lax approach to safety, as well as for a bungled response that allowed meltdowns to occur at three of the plant’s six reactors.
The scale of the accident, which forced almost 100,000 people from their homes and contaminated a wide area of northeastern Japan, has put pressure on the government to explain why warnings about the plant’s safety went unheeded and global safety standards were ignored, even as officials promoted nuclear power as the country’s most reliable source of electricity.
Haruki Madarame, head of a panel of nuclear safety experts who provide technical advice to the government, told a Parliament-sponsored inquiry on Wednesday that Japanese officials had succumbed to a blind belief in the country’s technical prowess and failed to thoroughly assess the risks of building nuclear reactors in an earthquake-prone country.
For example, officials did not give serious consideration to what would happen if electric power were lost at a nuclear station, because they believed that Japan’s power grid was far more reliable than those in other countries, he said. The March earthquake and tsunami cut off the Fukushima plant from the grid, leaving operators unable to keep the reactor cores from overheating.
“Though global safety standards kept on improving, we wasted our time coming up with excuses for why Japan didn’t need to bother meeting them,” Mr. Madarame said.
Officials also gave too little attention, he said, to new studies raising the possibility of large earthquakes off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture. Mr. Madarame said he was to blame for some of the lapses, but that the Nuclear Safety Commission had a culture of complacency long before he took over in mid-2010.
His candid testimony comes at a time when the government is pushing to restart reactors around the country that were shut down following the accident. Only 3 of Japan’s 54 reactors are operating; the rest have been kept idle by local governments worried about safety.
To quell opposition, the central government has ordered new “stress tests” to assess whether the plants can withstand a major natural disaster. But the investigative commission’s hearings could undermine efforts to restart more reactors.
Mr. Madarame said the government should go far beyond the lax safety checks that Japanese regulators performed for years, which he said were still being carried out in some cases using “technology three decades old.” He said that regulators had been too cozy with the industry. Mr. Madarame also criticized Tokyo Electric Power, the operator of the Fukushima plant, for saying that it could not possibly have prepared for a tsunami as strong as the one last March, which killed 20,000 people along Japan’s northeast coast.
「我要孩子、不要核子﹗」廢核行動全台五地齊發聲〔記者劉力仁、唐在馨、朱有鈴、余肇福、彭顯鈞、湯佳玲、邱俊福／綜合報導〕「我要孩子、不要核子！」日本福島核安事件引發國人對核電的恐慌與反省，昨台北、新北、台中、高雄及台東五地同步發聲，全台數千人以喊口號、集體路倒方式，表達廢核決心。
主婦聯盟︰台灣應全面檢討核能政策
向日葵廢核行動發言人崔愫欣表示，只要台灣核電威脅存在，反核活動不會停止，立法院即將審查核四追加預算，反核團體將全力擋下。主婦聯盟台語事務所主任楊淑慧昨表示，日本核廠出事時，讓台灣的民眾都相當恐慌，她強烈建議在這個時間點，台灣全面檢討核能政策。
總統府︰這些聲音，政府都聽到了
總統府發言人羅智強昨表示，馬總統很關心環保團體的遊行與訴求，「這些聲音，政府都聽到了」。羅智強調，行政部門已在廣徵各界意見，通盤研究檢討，一定要提出具體可行、並且讓民眾安心的核能政策。
原能會︰核一延役審查 去年底暫停
針對核能電廠進度，原能會副主委謝得志表示，核能一廠的延役審查已在去年底暫停，核四廠確定今年底前不會裝填燃料棒。至於低放核廢料最終處置場址，原能會放射性物料管理局副局長邵耀祖說，須經過地方性公投、二階環評通過後，才會核發使用執照。
「四 三○微笑向陽、遠離核災」台北遊行的民眾，下午近二時從國父紀念館出發，沿著忠孝東路遊行至總統府前凱達格蘭大道集結。許多民眾全家出動，還可見到青年學 子、上班族、藝文團體參加。遊行隊伍抵達凱道之後，主辦單位模擬發生核災時，要求上千民眾全部倒地不起，抗議台灣一旦發生核災，台灣死傷將極為慘重。
活動高潮是來自福島災區的兩位日籍友人大賀絢子跟宇野朗子上台演說，兩人以自身見聞，提醒大家重視核安。南台灣廢核行動在高市舉行，民眾同樣以「集體路倒」、模擬發生核災事故的慘況。
「核 能是禁果，政客及利益團體就是以核能利益引誘我們的蛇。」台中市晚間有多個團體，以舉辦祈福禮的方式在天主教台中教區主教公署宣導反核，台灣生態學會秘書 長蔡智豪呼籲：「台灣免於核能誘惑，就能免於核災凶惡。」現場以過去核災受難者的照片，排成一個十字架，民眾輪流獻上向日葵及百合花，大家也將燭光放上現 場排出的「NO NUKE（不要核電）」，氣氛莊嚴。
轄區內達仁鄉為核廢最終處置場候選場址的台東縣，反核廢大遊行獲上千人齊怒吼，呼籲政 治人物拒絕台電五十億元補償誘惑，反對將達仁鄉設為核廢最終處置場選址。台東反核廢聯盟總召謝文漢表示，台東反核力量從來都沒有像昨天一樣，匯集這麼多民 間社團與族群，希望這次行動能讓台灣能源政策出現轉機。
反核四陳情無交集 自救會揚言再抗議
新 北市鹽寮反核四自救會逾兩百人也前往核四廠前群聚抗議，訴求「核四不運轉、改裝博物館」，並要求台電董事長出面收下陳情書，核四廠先後派出公關經理江文華 及副處長楊添壽擬接下陳情書，都被自救會以層級太低拒絕；雙方幾經溝通都無交集，最後顏世雄憤而撕毀陳情書，揚言下次會帶更多人來抗議！
反核訴求重點與經濟部回應
訴求
經濟部應就「三分之一廠商關門」、「台灣經濟會垮」的錯誤發言說明
回應
核一、二、三廠去年度發電量共400億度，工業用電使用量約為1000億度，若核電廠關掉，將採分區輪流限電方式因應
訴求
檢討目前以全民稅金補貼工業電價，使工業完全沒有節電誘因的錯誤政策
回應
我國電價的訂定並未依產業別訂定電價。產業用電量較一般民生用電量高，造成用電量越多，補貼越高，電價結構確有必要檢討
訴求
落實環境基本法「非核家園」，明確訂出計畫和時間表
回應
正擴大低碳液化天然氣的使用、發展可能替代能源，也會逐年檢討逐步替代核能可能性
訴求
核一核二核三不得延役，如無法確保安全，應提前除役
回應
核一延役申請審查已暫停，核二、核三尚未提出。福島核災後，台電已重新評估各核能電廠延役之可行性
訴求
核四廠追加預算應刪除，不得裝填燃料棒
回應
核四尚未裝填燃料，裝填前會邀請世界核能發電協會、美核管會專家評估
訴求
在用電零成長的目標下，積極發展再生能源
回應
將加速離岸風力及太陽光電，海洋能及燃料電池等項目
訴求
遷移蘭嶼核廢料貯存場，反對核廢料處置場放在台東縣達仁鄉
回應
政府對最終處置場址無預設立場，民意由以縣為範圍的地方公投決定，最終處置場址完成，蘭嶼貯存場的低放射性廢棄物即可遷離
整理：記者陳曉宜、湯佳玲
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福島核災恐怖景象歷歷在目，民間團體今(30日)舉辦「四三○廢核行動」，台北、台中、高雄、台東四地串連，預估將有上萬人參與。為了避免重蹈三二○反核遊行覆轍，主辦單位刻意避免政黨介入，並強調溫情訴求，希望親子一同走上街頭，為台灣的未來許願。
民間團體則從29日上午開始，包括台灣保護聯盟、鹽寮反核自救會，就已聚集「包圍」台灣電力公司台北總部，夜宿至今天。台灣環盟會長王俊秀表示，大家接力守夜，是希望政府立刻停止核一、核二、核三廠的延役計畫，並讓核四停止興建，改為核電教育博物館。
今天台北場遊行下午1點在國父紀念館集合，預定傍晚5點半在總統府前凱道集結，進行「萬人核災」集體躺下的模擬畫面，要讓總統知道核災發生，難以倖免。
430向日葵反核台北總召、綠色公民行動聯盟秘書長崔愫欣強調，這波行動透過許多網路社群網站等方式，號召民眾參與，預估光是南北兩地分別就有上萬人參與。
台電公司29日指出，將以謙虛的態度、開放的心胸，仔細聆聽大家的聲音，世界上沒有完美的能源，台電正進行核能安全總體檢，訂出近、中程計劃逐步改善，並針對世界核能發電協會(WANO)提出建議，近期完成檢討。
不過，廢核行動主辦單位強調，反核活動不停歇，預計下次結集，將在5、6月立法院審核能相關預算時，到立院前陳情，緊接著，經濟部或環保署審能源政策時，也將號召舉辦多場行動，直到政府回應民眾訴求。
About 10,000 people took to the streets in Taipei and three other major cities on Saturday to protest against nuclear power and urge the government to put more efforts into developing renewable energy amid heightened antinuclear sentiments in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan.
About 18% of Taiwan’s power is from nuclear, while 53.4% is generated from coal and 20.4% by natural gas. Antinuclear activists argue that Taiwan has sufficient power supply without nuclear energy as the nation has a 28.1% surplus of electricity even during peak hours.
Wu Wen-chang, chairman of the Yenliao Anti-Nuclear Self-Help Association, urged Taiwanese to wake up and realize the perils of nuclear energy.
Wu claimed the design of the nearly-completed Fourth Nuclear Power Plant is flawed and that it is dangerous to build the facility near a geological fault line.
Members of Wu’s organization began a 24-hour sit-in in front the Taiwan Power Co. on Friday morning before joining Saturday’s march in Taipei. More than 5,000 people from 100 citizen groups took part in Taipei’s protests.
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台電核電廠:
相見時難: 核四廠"蓋期"近一代
別亦難: 詳下 要除我役 你騎馬難下啦!
我舉一例，《工程經濟學》( Engineering Economy) 的基本道理，只是計算「複利」的公式，這人類很早就知道如何盤算。但是，這種經濟計算，譬如說，「某一專案，可能花多少成本？產生多少效益？」在日常生活很平常。然而，有時候這種「本益」(benefit/cost ，下文簡稱B/C ) 分析，有時候看似很簡單，其實多半是可能「誤己誤人」的。所以，W. E. Deming 博士說過，他是不相信任何B/C的數字的，因為我們都知道，他的許多關於人類的迷思之批評：在了解整體系統上、在判斷變異的原因上、在知識與學習上、在團體/團隊互動和個人的心理學上。
阿里山森林鐵路神木支線小火車27日發生翻覆意外，車廂掉落橋下，現場怵目驚心。阿里山森林鐵路神木支線小火車27日發生翻覆意外，有4節車廂翻覆，至少造成6人死亡，數十人受傷，車廂內血跡斑斑。
這一翻覆意外，7-8年前也發生過一次。
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