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Taiwan
Abandoned Constructions
2
Operating
4
Permanent Shutdown
2
Number of Reactors
(as of December 2019)
36.6
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of December 2019)
11.4%
Increase
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2018)
54.5
Annual Load Factor
(2018)
WNISR
Essential News –
24 September 2019
Closure of Chin Shan-2 Ends Operations at Taiwan’s First Nuclear Power Plant
WNISR
, 22 September 2019 The Chin Shan-2 reactor (also known as Jinshan and First Nuclear Power Plant) was officially closed on 15 July 2019 when its 40-year operating license expired. The reactor, located in Shimen, New Taipei, in northern Taiwan, had remained shut down since June 2017—and thus had been considered by
WNISR
as in Long-Term Outage (
LTO
) up until 15 July. The closure of Unit 2 brings to an end electricity generation at Taiwan’s first nuclear power plant, following the closure of (...)
WNISR
in the Media –
7 November 2018
Taipei Times (Taiwan)
Nuclear power generation ‘waning’
Taipei Times By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter Wed, Nov 07, 2018 - Page 3 Environmentalists yesterday released a video by Mycle Schneider, a lead author of the latest World Nuclear Industry Status Report, who said that global nuclear power generation has been declining, except in China, and that costs of nuclear power generation are rising. Schneider, a Paris-based independent consultant on nuclear energy, opened his 14-minute speech in the video by saying “greetings to Taipei” from a (...)
The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).