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Seven students embark on anti-nuke
protest walk
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
University students raise banners
in front of the nuclear power plant at Ma-anshan in Pingtung County’s Hengchun
Township yesterday as they set off on a five-day anti-nuclear protest walk.
Photo: CNA
Seven university students yesterday set
out on a five-day protest walk in southern Taiwan, hoping more people will
support an end to nuclear energy in the nation.
Standing in front of the Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung County’s Ma-anshan
(馬鞍山), the seven students, wearing yellow T-shirts that read “STOP, No Nuke,”
said they would convey their message of opposing nuclear power along their walk
starting from the plant and ending in Greater Kaohsiung on Saturday.
Describing the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao
District (貢寮), New Taipei City (新北市), as a threat to the lives of Taiwanese,
they said they plan to visit local Earth God temples in Pingtung County to pray
that the plant’s construction be halted and for protection for Taiwan from
nuclear disasters.
The students said they would walk during the day, while giving out anti-nuclear
flyers and selling anti-nuclear products from a backup vehicle that would drive
along the group. They have already scheduled rest stops at night, where they
will give anti-nuclear power lectures, perform short skits and distribute
flyers.
“Walking is the most humble way to approach the local populace and communicate
with them,” National Sun Yat-sen University student Lin Hsin-yi (林心乙) said.
“No one wants to have a nuclear power plant built beside their home, and
conflict can avoided by the termination of nuclear power,” said one of the
students, Tsai Mu-lin (蔡牧霖).
Another student, Chen Yi-hua (陳怡樺), said finding a site for nuclear waste
disposal would deepen regional divide.
They added that they would warn residents living near the Ma-anshan plant about
potential harm and damage should there be an accident at the plant.
Yuan Jui-yun (袁瑞雲), convener of Pingtung County’s nuclear safety monitoring
committee, voiced his support for the walking demonstration and urged people in
Pingtung to join the anti-nuclear parade on Saturday.
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