After the decision to resume work on the plant, legislator Chao Yung-ching said he had never seen another example of a government which on the one hand stressed its desire for a "nuclear-free homeland," but on the other still finally went ahead with building a nuclear power plant.
而在決議核四復工之後，立委趙永清表示，從沒有看過政府一方面強調「非核家園」，最後還是要蓋核電廠的例子。