Does Anyone Know Anything About a 1999 "Dahan River Valley" Nuclear Research Reactor Pit Spill?

[Charlie_Jack]

Thanks for the information, Tempo Gain!

The Apple Daily says the author of the article you linked to is Hè Lìwéi (賀立維), and it mentions nuclear engineering and Iowa State University.

There’s a Taipei Times interview of two nuclear experts, one of whom is a 賀立維 whose English name is David Ho. Dr. Ho apparently got his doctorate degree in nuclear engineering at Iowa State.

In the Taipei Times interview, Dr. Ho says, among other things:

I studied nuclear energy with the intent of helping Taiwan build its own nuclear bomb. There were several of us involved. We had four divisions. Mine would develop the bomb itself; a second was to develop a missile capable of carrying it; a third would develop the electronic guidance system and a fourth was to develop rocket fuel.

Nuclear power and Taiwan - Taipei Times

Here’s another Taipei Times article featuring Dr. Ho, in which he discusses problems of nuclear waste in Taiwan:

Ability to handle nuclear waste questioned - Taipei Times

In the Apple Daily interview, Dr. Ho says:

其中關鍵性的核種銫137與鍶90的放射性強度，到目前還不到一個半衰期，要達到安全程度至少還要等三百年。

Google Translate makes it look like he’s saying that the particular waste in question will be safe in about 300 years. Is that right?