Taipei, April 24:

A Taiwanese conservationist group for the first time today unveiled a short film featuring a nude model to mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident and to oppose a nuclear power plant under construction.

The unnamed model, allegedly a university student, showed her back carrying four Chinese characters reading “Rather Nude Than Nuke” in the two-minute film being shown on the Internet on the group’s website.

“The purpose is aimed to draw the attention of those people who ignore the importance of environmental protection,” Ho Tsung-hsun, secretary general to the No Nuke Union, said .

The move came as the world is to observe the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl accident, the world’s worst civilian nuclear disaster.

Taiwan has not learned from the lesson and continued building a new nuclear reactor, Ho said, noting that Chernobyl marked the beginning of the island’s anti-nuclear campaign. However, activists have failed to enlist the backing of widely respected Lee Yuan-tseh, the 1986 Nobel laureate in chemistry.

Lee, the head of Taiwan’s highest academic body, said at a seminar on Friday the island needs nuclear power to avoid relying on imported energy.