# Maanshan-2 disconnects, ending Taiwan’s last operating nuclear reactor under the phase-out path Date: 2025 ## The fact On 17 May 2025 Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant unit 2 was disconnected from the grid as its 40-year licence expired, leaving Taiwan without an operating power reactor under the DPP nuclear-free 2025 path. The Ministry of Economic Affairs said new gas and renewable units would cover the megawatts. He did not sit as Taipower’s shift supervisor. A later restart file is a child. ## Context Tsai-era phase-out sat as parent. Neighbouring 29 April reserve-margin briefing is parent weather. He owned the second-phase energy-transition line. 29 April 2025 reserve-and-AI briefing is neighbouring. 23 August 2025 restart referendum is a child. The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles and commander-in-chief. He does not write a PLA communique, a TSMC capex print, or a Legislative Yuan majority. A National Day address is not a completed interceptor. An inaugural line is not a PLA missile. A special-act press conference is not a passed statute. [William Lai](/people/lai-ching-te) is a common English name for the same person; the stored English name is Lai Ching-te. ## Evidence and sources Energy Administration MOEA (Taiwan) carries the official instrument or communique. World Nuclear News records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [nuclear-energy deployment](/drivers/nuclear-energy-deployment) and [fossil-fuel dependence](/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence): a completed last-reactor disconnection under a path his presidency continued. ## What is established and what is not Established: 17 May 2025 Maanshan-2 disconnection, independently reported. Not established: a unique later blackout coefficient from that Saturday, or that every later kWh was thereby gas-fired that hour. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. MOEA licensed the expiry. He owned the energy-transition line the premier restated.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Maanshan-2 disconnects, ending Taiwan’s last operating nuclear reactor under the phase-out path, not a later speech about Maanshan-2 disconnects, ending Taiwan’s last operating nuclear reactor under the phase-out path. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Maanshan-2 disconnects, ending Taiwan’s last operating nuclear reactor under the phase-out path on 2025-05-17 is not a licence to treat every later Energy Administration MOEA (Taiwan) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Maanshan-2 disconnects, ending Taiwan’s last operating nuclear reactor under the phase-out path into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Taipower operated the unit. MOEA licensed the expiry. He owned the energy-transition line the premier restated. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Lai Ching-te: https://factrail.ai/people/lai-ching-te ## Drivers - Nuclear-Energy Deployment: https://factrail.ai/drivers/nuclear-energy-deployment - Fossil-Fuel Dependence: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence - Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security ## Sources - https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/reactor-closure-marks-taiwans-nuclear-exit - https://www.moeaea.gov.tw/ECW/english/home/Index.aspx ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-lai-maanshan-2025