This is huge news. 

Taiwan is set to shut down its last reactor this weekend. But a proposed bill would effectively allow for the restart of the island’s shuttered atomic energy stations. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-13/taiwan-opens-door-to-atomic-power-plant-restarts-in-policy-tweak?srnd=phx-green#:~:text=Taiwanese%20lawmakers%20revised%20a%20nuclear,grows%20and%20geopolitical%20tensions%20worsen.

If you want more context on this, you should read my very long January 2023 dispatch from Taiwan. 

During my reporting, I interviewed government officials and semiconductor executives, visited Taiwan’s last incomplete nuclear plant and even traveled to Lanyu Island far off the mainland to talk to aboriginal Taiwanese at the center of a decades-old nuclear waste scandal. 

The takeaway is that: despite the complicated political history of nuclear on the island, Taiwan’s increasing reliance on imported natural gas is a major vulnerability to Chinese blockade.

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If you want more context on this, you should read my very long January 2023 dispatch from Taiwan. 

During my reporting, I interviewed government officials and semiconductor executives, visited Taiwan’s last incomplete nuclear plant and even traveled to Lanyu Island far off the mainland to talk to aboriginal Taiwanese at the center of a decades-old nuclear waste scandal. 

The takeaway is that: despite the complicated political history of nuclear on the island, Taiwan’s increasing reliance on imported natural gas is a major vulnerability to Chinese blockade. 
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/taiwan-nuclear-power-plants_n_63d2e635e4b01a43638cc6b1

I wrote this follow up piece when Taiwan shut down one of its last nuclear plants.

I wrote this follow up piece when Taiwan shut down one of its last nuclear plants. 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/taiwan-nuclear-plant-shut-down_n_6410a408e4b0fef152408a2b