Kuosheng Nuclear Power Plant
| Kuosheng Nuclear Power Plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 25 ° 12 '11 " N , 121 ° 39' 46" E | |
| Country: | Taiwan | |
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| Owner: | Taiwan Power Company | |
| Operator: | Taiwan Power Company | |
| Project start: | 1972 | |
| Commercial operation: | Dec 28, 1981 | |
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Active reactors (gross): |
2 (2040 MW) | |
| Energy fed in in 2010: | 14,947.42 GWh | |
| Energy fed in since commissioning: | 378,929.32 GWh | |
| Was standing: | April 26, 2018 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
Kuosheng is the second commercial nuclear power plant in Taiwan . The plant is located in the Wanli district of the city of New Taipei near Keelung in the north of the island, directly on the coast of the East China Sea .
The plant consists of two 1 gigawatt boiling water reactors from General Electric .
The facility was with 0.73 billion US dollars estimated and to 2.1 billion US dollars have cost.
Accidents
On March 21, 1993, three workers were exposed to high doses of radiation. The incident was rated 3 on the INES scale .
On May 16, 2001, the Taipei Times reported that 54 of the reactor's 157 control rods were damaged. Since all Taiwanese boiling water reactors used the same design, an immediate examination of all of these control rods was ordered.
nuclear waste
The Taiwanese nuclear waste (around 100,000 barrels) is partly stored on the island of Lan Yu, southeast of the coast of Taiwan. 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 Chin Shan nuclear power plant and in Kuosheng since 2005 .
Stop of operation and shutdown
The promised, official decommissioning of the two reactor blocks is to take place when the 40-year operating license expires in December 2021 and March 2023 .
Block 1 went offline on November 30, 2016. As there was no longer any space left in the spent fuel assemblies in the spent fuel pool , the operator was prohibited from restarting. Taipower applied for approval to build additional capacities and restart the block. On June 19, 2017, Kuosheng 1 went back online.
Since there was a reactor shutdown in Unit 2 as a result of a cable fire on May 30, 2016 , the government has also prohibited restarting this reactor. After the AEC gave the green light to restart the reactor in March 2018, it was restarted on March 27, 2018. One day later there was an emergency reactor shutdown since the plant (as of April 26, 2018) has not been put back into operation. The Taiwanese Prime Minister Lai Ching-te announced in mid-April that there was no schedule for restarting the reactor.
Data of the reactor blocks
The Kuosheng 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 |
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| Kuosheng-1 | Boiling water reactor | 985 MW | 1020 MW | November 19, 1975 | 05/21/1981 | 12/28/1981 | December 27, 2021 |
| Kuosheng-2 | Boiling water reactor | 985 MW | 1020 MW | 03/15/1976 | 06/29/1982 | March 16, 1983 | 03/14/2022 |
See also
Web links
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- ↑ Costs ( Memento from January 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.ecology.at
- ↑ Taipeitimes
- ↑ https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2017/06/nukes-uncertainty-charge-taiwans-energy-debate/
- ↑ https://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2017/04/06/china_2700_s-aec-clears-spent-pool-reconstruction-for-kuosheng-npp-040602#.WlyiBWdG3Jg
- ↑ https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2017/10/keeping-taiwan-going-dark/
- ↑ Announcement about the restart of Kuosheng-2 , Focus Taiwan, March 27, 2018 (English)
- ↑ No timetable for restarting No. 2 reactor: Taiwan premier , Taiwan News, April 15, 2018
- ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "Taiwan, China: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
- ↑ https://www.aec.gov.tw/english/radwaste/article501.php
