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To: craig crawford who wrote (372)	6/28/2001 3:55:17 AM
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NUCLEAR POWER Closure of Taiwanese nuclear plants could cost billions materials.b2bafrica.com Posted Mon, 25 Jun 2001 TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's plans to close three nuclear power plants ahead of schedule may cost around $10 billion (R80 billion), it has been reported. The three plants will be shut down in 2001, 2004, and 2007 - or seven years earlier than planned - according to an economic ministry report. The plans will be implemented only if the state-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower)'s output capacity is 15 percent higher than peak demands. Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government and the opposition parties agreed earlier this year to build a nuclear-free zone in the wake of a row over the construction of the island's fourth nuclear power plant. The DPP government last year scrapped the partly built $5,6 billion (R44,8 billion) power plant without consulting parliament - as required by Taiwan's constitution - plunging the island into months of political crisis. The DPP, which had listed the scrapping of the project on its party platform, reinstated the project in February. The government has opposed nuclear power on grounds of safety and difficulty in disposing of the nuclear waste. Since the first nuclear power plant started in 1987, the three nuclear power plants have generated 180 000 drums of low-radiation waste. To solve the pressing problem, Taipower plans to build a disposal site on the remote Wuchiu islet off the mainland, where up to 160 000 barrels of low-radiation waste can be stored. The plan was strongly opposed by hundreds of Wuchiu residents and Beijing. Meanwhile, Taipower forged an agreement with North Korea in early 1997 to dispose of 60 000 barrels of low-radiation nuclear waste, with a provision to increase the volume to 200 000 barrels. Taipower planned to begin shipping the waste to North Korea in 1998 but was forced to halt the scheme under pressure from South Korea and international conservationists. Source: Sapa