Starting point, see lots of friends
Dog lovers are present.
Women's groups, Green Party

Wide range of age groups and backgrounds
We followed the yellow balloons.



Local gods lead the way.

Leading the protest

Drummers and musicians keep things lively.
Winding our way down the old downtown streets.
Lovely old buildings
Vying for street space with the buses.
And cars and motorcycles
Walking the modern canyons of Taipei City.
Decent turn out despite the cold, rainy weather.





Lots of Tsai Ying-wen supporters
Coming out Ximending toward the train station

Walking along Chung-hsiao








When we died.
and when we were raised
nice performance by the temple guardians
driving away the evil spirits
Tammy gets interviewed by local university students
Grim Reaper
And orderly protest

Handmade protest umbrellas tell the story of Taiwan


the artist of the umbrella artwork in the yellow rain gear
Presbyterians of Taiwan speak out
Gods arrive in front of the President's residence
Ready to fight off nuclear evil
Heads of groups organizing the protest march and events

The protest march 核電歸零大遊行 was held on the first anniversary of Japan’s devastating magnitude 9 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that caused the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant 福島第一原子力発電所 to fail, plunging Japan into the worst nuclear crisis in its history. Protest marches took place in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung, where about 100 civic groups urged the national government to decommission the existing three nuclear power plants as soon as possible, stop construction of the fourth nuclear plant in Wanli 萬里 and to remove the radioactive nuclear waste stored on Orchid Island 蘭嶼.

Taiwan imports 99% of its energy. The island has six nuclear power reactors operating in three plants, and two 1350 MWe Advanced Boiling Water Reactors are under construction at Lungmen 龍門, near Taipei. Nuclear provides one quarter of base-load power and 17% overall, though nuclear comprises only 11% of the 46 GWe installed capacity. The Lanyu nuclear waste storage facility built on Orchid Island 蘭嶼 in 1982, receives nuclear waste from all of Taiwan's three nuclear power plants. About 100,000 barrels of nuclear waste have been stored at the Lanyu.