Taipower shuts Kuosheng-1 after it runs out of spent fuel storage space

摘要

Taiwan Power Co. shut Kuosheng-1 November 30 because the 985-MWrnreactor does not have room in its spent fuel pool for all of the fuel nowrnin the unit’s core, preventing a refueling outage, according to staternregulator Atomic Energy Council, or AEC, and Taipower.rnThe outage, which will likely last at least six months, has reducedrnstate-owned Taipower's nuclear share of its output from 19% in 2014rnto about 9% currently, according to real-time information onrnTaipower’s website.