Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant

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The Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant or Chin Shan Nuclear Power Plant, First Nuclear Power Plant, is a nuclear power plant in Shimen, New Taipei, Taiwan. Commissioned in 1978 for its first nuclear reactor, the plant is Taiwan's first nuclear power plant as well as Taiwan's smallest nuclear power plant.GenerationThe power plant can generate 9 billion kWh of electricity per year.The two spent fuel pools at the plant have 3,074 and 3,076 control rods respectively with a maximum storage of 3,083 rods per pool.Decommissioning planTaipower, as the operator of the power plant, was required by the Radiation Monitoring Center of the Atomic Energy Council to hand in the 2018 decommissioning plans for the plant by December 2015 for the authority to review all of the plans before the decommissioning date. Once the reactors have been shut down, the plant should be dismantled within 25 years.Taipower plans to allocate NT$18.2 billion for the disposal of nuclear waste from the decommissioned plant over the next 25 years. Currently Taipower is doing feasibility study of building a nuclear waste storage facility on an uninhabited island around Taiwan.Events2013The July 2013 Typhoon Soulik caused a trip to the generator and turbine of the power plant Unit-2 because one suspension ground line failed and hit the transmission line when the typhoon hit the island on 13–14 July. The typhoon also caused the seawater inlet to be blocked by large amount of debris and damaged three fine filters, traveling filter rake and the plant's switchyard. The damage caused the plant to be offline for several days.

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