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Protesters in Taiwan

Video. WATCH: Protesters in Taiwan demand closure of nuclear power plants

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Around 300 people protested in Taipei City on Saturday against a government plan to extend the use of a nuclear power station in southern Taiwan.

The demonstration was against legislators extending the use of Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant, also known as the “Third Nuclear Powerplant.”

Protestors braved the rain dressed in coats and straw hats, as speakers played the nuclear leak alarm message.

Taiwan currently has four nuclear power plants, with the first and second in the process of decommissioning, a third one still in use and a fourth whose construction was suspended in April 2014.

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