Chin Shan Nuclear Power Plant

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Chin Shan Nuclear Power Plant
Chin-shan Nuclear Power Plant-canal and containment building-P1020609.JPG
location
Chin Shan Nuclear Power Plant (Taiwan)
Chin Shan Nuclear Power Plant
Coordinates 25 ° 17 '29 "  N , 121 ° 34' 4"  E Coordinates: 25 ° 17 '29 "  N , 121 ° 34' 4"  E
Country: Taiwan
Data
Owner: Taiwan Power Company
Operator: Taiwan Power Company
Project start: 1969
Commercial operation: Dec 10, 1978
Shutdown: Oct 3, 2018

Decommissioned reactors (gross):

2 (1272 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning: 122,858 GWh
Was standing: April 26, 2018
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .
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Chin-Shan, or Jinshan, was the first commercial nuclear power plant in Taiwan . The plant is located in the Jinshan district of New Taipei City in the north of the island, directly on the coast.

The plant consisted of two 604 megawatt boiling water reactors from General Electric . Chin-Shan 1 became critical in October 1977 and connected to the network in December 1978. Chin-Shan 2 went critical in November 1978 and connected to the network in July 1979.

The plant was valued at $ 420 million and is said to have cost $ 990 million.

Due to incidents and defects, exhausted storage capacities for accumulating nuclear waste, but also in connection with Taiwan's nuclear phase-out, the two reactor units were taken off the grid in December 2014 and June 2017, respectively. The official shutdown of the two units did not take place until the 40-year operating license expired in December 2018 and July 2019, respectively.

incident

On March 2, 2001, a fuel rod was damaged during a fuel rod change.

nuclear waste

The Taiwanese nuclear waste (around 100,000 barrels) is partly stored on the island of Lan Yu in the southeast of the island. According to an agreement from 2002, however, no further waste should be stored there. Two interim storage facilities (around 40,000 barrels) have been in operation in the Kuosheng nuclear power plant and in Chin Shan since 2005 .

Others

Actually, the government had already decided in 2001 not to build any further nuclear power plants and to let the license of the existing ones expire. Taiwan is a country prone to earthquakes, and the Chin Shan and Kuosheng facilities are in very densely populated areas. This meant that the Chin Shan nuclear power plant should have gone offline in 2017. In 2007 the consensus was called into question again and an extension of the term by 20 years was discussed.

In February 2016, Taiwan's Prime Minister Lin Chuan announced that the two reactors in Chin Shan will be shut down as planned in 2018 and 2019.

Stop of operation and shutdown

The promised, official decommissioning of the two reactor blocks should take place when the 40-year operating license expires in December 2018 and 2019. The systems have in fact been shut down for a long time anyway and it was not to be assumed that they would start up again in the meantime:

Block 1 has been at a standstill since December 28, 2014 due to a defect.

After a high-voltage pylon near the power station collapsed as a result of heavy rainfall , reactor block 2 was also taken off the grid on June 3, 2017. The shutdown took place one week before the planned shutdown. Since there is no longer any storage capacity for nuclear waste in the interim storage facility at the site, the operator Taipower was forbidden to fill the reactor with new fuel.

Data of the reactor blocks

The Chin-Shan nuclear power plant has two blocks :

Reactor block Reactor type net
power 		gross
power 		start of building Network
synchronization 		Commercialization
of essential operation 		switching off
processing
Chin Shan-1 Boiling water reactor 604 MW 636 MW June 2nd 1972 November 16, 1977 December 10, 1978 December 6, 2018
Chin Shan-2 Boiling water reactor 604 MW 636 MW 7th December 1973 December 19, 1978 July 15, 1979 16th July 2019

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/orchid-waste.htm costs
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ Taipeitimes
  4. ↑ http://english.rti.org.tw/news/?recordId=53681
  5. ↑ https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2017/06/obstacles-nuclear-power/
  6. ↑ https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2017/06/nukes-uncertainty-charge-taiwans-energy-debate/
  7. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "Taiwan, China: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)
  8. ↑ https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.aspx?current=554
  9. ↑ https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.aspx?current=555