Not at all what I said… but okay.
Good point Hansioux. I heard the Fukushima plant was recommended to build a higher wall but they just wanted to save money being a private operator ?
Also where the back up power was located was dumb.
For Taiwan’s plants it would be interesting to see any review .
It think it’s possible to make nuclear plants practically safe even from massive earthquakes and tsunamis, but the costs can be really high to achieve that.
https://www.livescience.com/39110-japan-2011-earthquake-tsunami-facts.html
NP4 is built on a fault line…
"The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which has long supported the right of referendum and passed legislation to lower referendum thresholds in late 2017, has now passed a bill that will limit the exercise of direct democracy.
The DPP-controlled Legislative Yuan passed an amendment to the Referendum Act on Monday that will only allow national referendums to be held on the fourth Saturday of August every two years, starting in 2021."
The DPP suffered a major defeat in the elections, winning only six city and county seats after holding 13 previously.
It also saw some of its core policies, such as the phasing out of nuclear power and opening Taiwan to food imports from Japanese areas affected by the Fukushima nuclear meltdown handily defeated in referendums.
The large number of referendums were prompted by the DPP government’s lowering of thresholds to initiate referendums in a legislative amendment in December 2017 that made it much easier than previously to bring them to a vote.
The new provision will likely make it harder for referendums to pass, as the Referendum Act requires an initiative to be supported by at least 25 percent of eligible voters and be backed by more than half of the votes cast to be approved.
Turnouts of that size may be harder to muster in late August in a non-election year than on a normal election day.
To refresh your memory, this is what Tsai said in Dec 2017
"Taipei, Dec. 12 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Tuesday hailed a law amendment lowering of the thresholds for referendums as a “historic moment” that ushers in a new era in which “people are the masters” of the country.
In a post on her Facebook page following the passage of the amendments to the Referendum Act in the Legislature, the president said the existing Referendum Act, which is “fraught with faults,” has become history.
The new amendments have given back power to the people and broken them out of the “birdcage,” Tsai said.
it’s never about the rights of the people, but rather the complete control of citizens’ thoughts and actions by politicians
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