{"id":73613,"date":"2025-08-24T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/24\/taiwan-referendum-on-reopening-last-nuclear-plant-fails"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:17:03","slug":"taiwan-referendum-on-reopening-last-nuclear-plant-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73613","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan referendum on reopening last nuclear plant fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clear majority backs restarting Maanshan reactor but doesn\u2019t reach legal threshold, as president says nuclear power may be reconsidered if it becomes safe<\/p>\n<p>A referendum to push for the reopening of Taiwan\u2019s last nuclear plant has failed to reach the legal threshold to be valid, though the president said the island could return to the technology in the future if safety standards improved.<\/p>\n<p>The plebiscite on Saturday, backed by the opposition, asked whether the Maanshan power plant should be reopened if it was \u201cconfirmed\u201d there were no safety issues. The plant was closed in May as the government shifts to renewables and liquefied natural gas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/24\/taiwan-referendum-on-reopening-last-nuclear-plant-fails\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear majority backs restarting Maanshan reactor but doesn\u2019t reach legal threshold, as president says nuclear power may be reconsidered if it becomes safeA referendum to push for the reopening of Taiwan\u2019s last nuclear plant has failed to reach the lega&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,493,65,570,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-energy","category-environment","category-nuclear-power","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73614,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613\/revisions\/73614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}