Hu Chin-piao (original) (raw)

Hu Chin-piao (Chinese: 胡錦標) is a Taiwanese politician who led the Atomic Energy Council twice, from 1996 to 2000 and again between 2001 and 2002. Hu was appointed head of the Atomic Energy Council in June 1996 under president Lee Teng-hui and premier Lien Chan. He retained his position when Vincent Siew assumed the premiership. In March 1999, Hu granted permission for the Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant to be built, without undertaking a second environmental impact assessment, despite the fact that Taiwan Power Company had decided to increase the plant's power output shortly before construction first commenced. He was succeeded by Hsia Te-yu and became minister without portfolio responsible for investigating compensation for targets of political prosecution. Hu returned to the Atomic Energy Co