DAILY RADIATION READING
Begin/End Time: 12/Dec/2013 – 8:08-10:08am
Elapsed Time: 120 minutes
Average CPM: 43.4
Maximum CPM: 79
Minimum CPM: 17
(Avg CPM up 0.7 from 42.7; Max up 1, Min up 7...There are 3 plants in operation, a fourth is under construction, very near Taipei. Each of the two plants in the north, Jinshan and Kuosheng, has 2 GE reactors. Jinshan has 2-GE-Mark I-BWR-4s, 2x636 MW BWR. These are like those at Fukushima, with spent fuel cooling pools high above the reactors. Kuosheng has 2-GE-Mark III-BWR-6s, 2x985 MW BWR. Each of these plants is about 13 miles from where I live. Jinshan built in 1978-79, to be decommissioned 2018-19; Kuosheng built 1981-82, licensed to 2021 and 2023. The new one in the north to be completed 2018. There is another plant on the southern tip of the island which is about 220 miles from here. It has 2 Westinghouse PWR reactors, 2x951 MW PWR, licensed to 2024-25.
During one of the July typhoons that blew through here, Soulik, caused a trip to the generator and turbine at Jinshan, and also blocked the seawater inlet to be blocked with debris for a few days. It seems in August there was a report that water had been leaking for 3 years from one of the storage tanks. Can't find more data on that. Taipower, the operator, claims it was water from cleaning floors, etc., that has since been contained, none escaping into the environment. Uh-huh. In March 2012, at Kuosheng, it was discovered that the seven bolts anchoring one of the reactors to the concrete floor -- one was broken, two fractured, four cracked. They sought advice from outside. No further reports on that. There was an event in June 2013 that caused an automatic shutdown of the first reactor. It was caused by a blade of the air dampercoming loose and falling into "busbar" between the generator and main transformer. It was fixed, reactor back online in two days.
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