TAIPOWER MULLS NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE OPTIONS|核廢去處 傳台電鎖定無人島.建海底城

In a recent report published by Taipower, the company looks into building centralized storage for nuclear waste on an unpopulated or semi-populated island. The report also looks at the international practise of building storage below sea level, and may assess the construction of a submarine complex as a final disposal site. However, Taipower clarified that such centralized storage will only serve a relay station for the processing of nuclear waste. In addition, the company is planning an indoor storage above ground, rather than a submarine one. The first, second and third nuclear power plants, are all near their decommission dates. Where both high and low radioactive nuclear waste should be disposed of is a problem. It is rumored that Taiwan may use an unpopulated or semi-populated island to construct centralized storage, or like some other countries, place nuclear waste in marine storage. Taipower clarified that centralized storage was still just a nuclear waste relay station. In the future it plans an indoor land surface storage facility, and would not choose to use submarine storage. ==LIN TE-FU, Spokesman for Nuclear Power, Taipower== We've looked at various cases from around the world. Based on what we have seen, most solutions are 100-percent above ground, with a large warehouse of some sort. The question then becomes how to acquire a patch of land, where we could store nuclear waste for a very very long time as a final solution. Taipower said it looked at how the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and other countries would first centrally store radioactive waste and then have a final disposal strategy. Spent nuclear fuel rods and low-level radioactive waste was put together in medium-term storage, which enabled more efficient monitoring of, and centralized management of, the nuclear waste. The current plan was for land facilities, but anti-nuclear groups believe that Taiwan is located between tectonic plates and there are frequent earthquakes, so the use of seabed nuclear waste storage had safety implications. ==FANG CHIEN, Anti-nuclear Activist== In Sweden or Finland, they are able to find granite-based locations that have been geologically stable for millions of years. So we think what Taipower is now saying is really irresponsible. What they are doing is a waste of time and money. Taipower stressed that a centralized storage facility would not be built underground, but recommended that the Ministry of Economic Affairs set up a site selection committee to assess and set up the public participation for any final disposal site. There should be a communication platform for selection. Once selected it should be approved by the Executive Yuan, and there should be follow-up environmental impact assessment and other procedures. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 核一二三廠，陸續接近除役年限，高低放射性核廢料到底該何去何從，外傳台電希望在無人島或準無人島，興建集中式貯存場，並比照國外在地下海底城貯存核廢料，不過台電上午澄清，集中式貯存場是貯存核廢料中繼站，未來是規畫在室內地表貯存，並沒有以地下海底城作為選項。 ==台電核能發言人 林德福== 按照國際上目前的 一些工程的一些經驗來講 是完全是百分之百地表 蓋了一個類似很大的一個倉庫 等到未來怎麼樣找一塊地 能夠儲存非常非常久時間的 一個最終處置 台電表示，台電是參考荷蘭、瑞士、比利時等國，將放射性廢棄物採用先集中貯存再進行最終處置的策略，將用過核子燃料及低放射性廢棄物集中進行中期貯存，透過集中管理核廢料提升監測效率，而且目前規劃都是地表上的設施，但反核人士則認為，台灣位於菲律賓板塊和歐亞板塊交界處，地震頻繁，如果使用海底核廢城安全遭質疑。 ==反核人士 方儉== 瑞典 芬蘭那些國家是在一個 幾百萬年都是相對穩定的 一個花崗岩的大的地盤上面 所以我們覺得台電這樣講 是非常不負責任的 這樣只是浪費錢跟浪費時間 台電強調，集中式貯存場不會興建在地底下，但如果是最終處置場則有可能，也建議經濟部成立選址委員會進行評估，並成立民眾參與選址的溝通平台，未來選定地點後呈報行政院核定，再由台電執行後續環評等相關作業。 記者 吳雅瑜 林國煌 台北報導