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Modern air-conditioned, automated and well-shielded storage facilities have been constructed to ensure enough storage capacity to accommodate all the anticipated LLRW at each NPP. These include two 40,000 drums facilities at Kuosheng NPP, a 23,000 drums and a 40,000 drums facility at Chinshan NPP and a 31,000 drums facility at Maanshan NPP.
*Unit: 55 gallon drums
Nuclear power plants low level radioactive waste storage status
Last Update: Jan 12, 2023
Nuclear power plants low level radioactive waste storage status
(December 2022)
(December 2022)
Modern air-conditioned, automated and well-shielded storage facilities have been constructed to ensure enough storage capacity to accommodate all the anticipated LLRW at each NPP. These include two 40,000 drums facilities at Kuosheng NPP, a 23,000 drums and a 40,000 drums facility at Chinshan NPP and a 31,000 drums facility at Maanshan NPP.
Plant | Solidified | Spent Resin | Combustible | Compressible | Others | Total |
Chinshan | 9,128 | 6,741 | 7,626 | 11,613 | 9,755 | 44,863 |
Kuosheng | 26,910 | 11,585 | 1,393 | 2,023 | 17,126 | 59,037 |
Maanshan | 2,981 | 2,258 | 1,506 | 1,768 | 1,333 | 9,846 |
Total | 39,019 | 20,584 | 10,525 | 15,404 | 28,214 | 113,746 |