Despite Taiwan's history of often violent anti-nuclear demonstrations, Taipower proposed adding six new nuclear reactors to its existing capacity. The utility also reported that Japan and Korea have come to a similar conclusion and will boost their reliance on nuclear to 40 percent by the year 2010. As it turns out, the inventive, twenty-something Mr. Glass very likely fabricated that story. In fact, editors at The New Republic found that Mr. Glass fabricated at least two-thirds of the 41 articles he wrote for their publication, which is why they took the rather intolerant step of firing him last month. In any case, scratch the Cassini anti-nuke demonstration.
Many similar events are genuine, unfortunately.