Yu Shyi-kun Forcefully Announces Nuclear 4 Shutdown: The Beginning of National Energy Policy Collapse and Billions in Losses

In October 2000, shortly after Chen Shui-bian took power, Premier Yu Shyi-kun publicly announced the "suspension of Nuclear Plant 4," triggering a constitutional crisis and a political earthquake. This move, forcefully changing a major national public construction without parliamentary consent, led to massive contract breach compensations and energy gaps. Under pressure, the government later awkwardly announced "resumption." This decision-making, "treating national policy like a joke," not only wasted hundreds of billions in public funds but also initiated 20 years of the DPP utilizing anti-nuclear slogans to tear society apart and lead Taiwan into long-term power shortage crises, marking the most serious administrative dereliction of Yu''s premiership.