9 Jan (NucNet): Taiwan’s six operational reactor units generated 40.54 terawatt hours (gross) of electricity in 2007, a record high and an increase of 1.7 percent over 2006.
The average capacity factor for the units was 90.28 percent, up from 88.93 percent in 2006. These were the best average capacity figures in Taiwan’s nuclear energy operational history, the Atomic Energy Council said.
Taiwan has two units at each of its three nuclear power plants at Chin Shan, Kuosheng and Maanshan. They comprise of four boiling water reactor units and two pressurised water reactor units.
According to the AEC, the annual average number of abnormal events per unit was 2.33 (or 14 events for all six units), and the average number of automatic scrams per unit was 0.33 (or two scrams for all six units together).
Production of solidified low-level radioactive waste from all six units totalled 259 drums, down 21 percent from 327 drums in 2006 and down 57 percent from 601 drums in 2005.
A record was also set at unit 1 of the Maanshan plant for a refuelling outage of 31.62 days, the shortest yet for any of Taiwan utility Taipower’s nuclear units.
