
Standing on Shaky Ground
Taiwan built one of its nuclear power plants roughly 40 kilometers from an active fault line and just 8 kilometers from Taipei, a capital of over two and a half million people. This film asks whether the island learned anything from Fukushima, walking through seismic studies, plant blueprints, and interviews with engineers and safety experts who lay out what a meltdown so close to a dense capital would actually mean. Estimates cited put potential deaths over a million if the worst-case scenario plays out, and the film traces how evacuation, containment, and emergency planning would or would not hold up against that math. Officials and industry figures defend the plant's safety record and design tolerances, while critics point to Taiwan's known fault lines and Japan's own pre-Fukushima assurances as a warning sign. The film stays focused on the specific geography and engineering at stake rather than nuclear power in the abstract, building its case site by site around one plant and one city.