[My answer]
Taiwanese govenment has a policy of creating a "nuclear-free homeland" by 2025. Taiwan has four operable nuclear power reactors - two each at the Kuosheng and Maanshan plants - which account for around 15% of the island's electricity generation. Unit 1 of Taiwan's oldest plant, Chinshan, has already been taken offline and will be decommissioned, while the operating licence of unit 2 is due to expire in July. Construction of two units at Lungmen began in 1999, but the project has been beset with political, legal and regulatory delays. The completed unit 1 was mothballed in July 2015, while construction of unit 2 was suspended in April 2014.
Many people would think nuclear energy is very dnagerous and it would injure the nature environment and damage our heath at the same time. But I think nuclear is not dangerous as that people think. If we completely take protective meatures. Nuclear energy coild bring us heavy power.
[My partner's answer]
My country, Ecuador do not have a nuclear plant. However, it is open to the possibility of building one. There have been some studies related to the feasibility of the implementation, potential location considering geological factors, stability of the terrain (possibility of earthquake), cooling capacity, negative effects for surrounding inhabitants and environment.
In my country Ecuador, throughout the 2011-2021 period, crude oil has been the energy source with the highest production (average of 190 million barrels in 10 years). The share of renewable sources in the production of primary energy has been less than the of oil and natural gas. However, the production of renewable energy registered a growth 87.6% during the 2011-2021 period, mainly due to the growth in hydroelectric generation.
I am in favor on the use and development of sustainable energy choices. I think that the implementation of more sustainable energy choices would hopefully alleviate in some extend the impact generated towards our environment, while making use of that same environment in an efficient manner. Certainly, there are limitations regarding each type of renewable energy, however our reliance on fossil fuels has and is currently causing significant contamination in or earth.
Although the inversion required to implement or expand these technologies is high and the profit will not be seen immediately, I believe that we owe our world to protect our nature and ecosystem. Moreover, at a long-term turning the energy production healthier and environmentally friendly processes will diversify the economies of the countries while protecting them from the fluctuations of fossil fuels prices and is likely to promote inclusive economic growth, new jobs and poverty alleviation.
[Reflection]
This week we discuss the nuclear energy. Exactly nuclear ernergy greatly infects our life. And the science engineers deperately want to find the substitute energy or we called ”green energy”. But there appear some queation, what kind of energy we could use to substitute the energy? Dislike coal energy, nuclear energy would not generate lot’s of CO2 to affect our air condition and it has strong generating efficiency. Taiwanese government really want to create a non-nuclear homeland and some guys followed blindly. Out of the nuclear energy, if Taiwan has the ability to provide electricity for the livelihood? And use coal energy continuously, if that eill bring us more fatal damage? I think the solve way is that engineer not just focus on finding new types of energy, they could also find some ways to control the nuclear waste. Decline the damage that it cause.