China has agreed to store nuclear waste generated by Taiwan, a report said on Thursday.
A unit of the Chinese nuclear industry signed an accord with a private, non-profit Taiwan technology service company last month to dispose and store nuclear waste from the island's three nuclear power plants, the China Times said. President of the unnamed Taiwanese company Wu Ying-Hu told the paper that under the agreement nuclear waste from the island could be placed at an 8,000 meter deep storage centre at Renhua, Quangdong province.
The storage site was converted from a nuclear base and a uranium mine, Wu said.
If Taipei authorities and the state-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) agreed on the project, China would accept the nuclear waste for storage immediately, he added. Wu said the mainland would first take the 97,000 barrels of low-radiation waste stored on Orchid Island, where the indigenous Yami people have repeatedly protested during the past two decades.
The waste could shipped to Renhua in 45 days, he added. Bureau Report