The nuclear phantom from 2011By Huang Wei-ping 黃惟冰Japan is reeling from the powerful earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on Monday afternoon. Apart from tsunami warnings, the thing people most worried about when the quake hit was whether nearby nuclear power plants were safe. After all, if another disaster like the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant were to reoccur, the results would be unthinkable. In other words, the natural disasters that threaten Japanese nuclear power plants are equally applicable to Taiwan. Taipei and New Taipei City have a combined population of nearly 10 million, most of whom live less than 30km from the two nuclear power plants located on the north coast.
