
Why Taiwan May Reverse its Nuclear Phase-Out
Taiwan just shut down its last nuclear power station, marking the end of a decades-long fight to abandon atomic energy. But a growing energy crisis may force the island to reverse course.
October 20, 2025
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Alexander C. Kaufman is an award-winning reporter and writer who has covered energy and climate change for more than a decade. His reporting has traversed four continents, with dispatches from the Brazilian Amazon to Greenland's ice sheet, Mongolia's frigid steppe to the Philippines' mothballed nuclear plant. A fourth-generation New Yorker, he lives in southern Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. Reach him via his website www.alexanderckaufman.com, follow him on X at @AlexCKaufman or Bluesky at @alexckaufman.bsky.social, and subscribe to his newsletter at kaufman.substack.com.
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