The Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) says it expects to publish a report on the closure of the Chinshan Nuclear Power Plant later in the month.
The company made the announcement Saturday at a public briefing on the decommissioning process. The Chinshan plant, in New Taipei City’s Shimen District, is Taiwan’s oldest nuclear plant.
As part of the process, Taipower says it hopes to build a storage facility for radioactive waste on an uninhabited island. The company also says that it has used case studies of decommissioned plants in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland in drawing up its plans for the Chinshan plant.
Taipower expects it will take 25 years to complete the decommissioning process. The process will include decontamination work, the demolition of the plant’s buildings, and the restoration of the land the plant sits on. The report expected out this month will look at the feasibility of the company’s plans.
Taipower says it will monitor the environment around the plant during the process and post the latest data on radiation, air quality, water quality, noise in the area online.