Taiwan’s national legislature decided June 16 to set up a special committee that would determine within three months whether funds should be allocated for a pilot project to reprocess 1,200 spent fuel assemblies, as proposed by the state-owned Taiwan Power Co. On the last day of the current session of the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan’s parliament, Speaker Wang Jin-pyng announced that leaders of both the major party caucuses in the legislature had decided, after consultations, to establish a 29-member “special decision-making task force” to decide the fate of the pilot program for reprocessing spent fuel from Taipower’s Chinshan and Kuosheng nuclear generating stations.
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