By Michael Gold TAIPEI (Reuters) - Police in Taiwan fired water cannons on Monday to disperse hundreds of anti-nuclear protesters refusing to give up their campaign despite a government pledge to halt work on the island's fourth nuclear power plant. The protesters had been occupying a main Taipei boulevard since Sunday, demanding the government scrap plans to begin operation of Taiwan's nearly completed fourth reactor. "The government should respond to the public's desires as soon as possible." Taiwan sits on the so-called ring of fire region of seismic activity around the Pacific Ocean and many of the island's residents are alarmed at the prospect of an earthquake triggering a disaster like the one at Fukushima in Japan that followed an earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Despite that, hundreds of protesters remained out overnight and police used water canons to clear them in the morning. Read More http://ift.tt/1tU7m7e
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