The Atomic Energy Council has not yet received Taipower's formal application to export the waste but its chairman has hinted the deal may be scuppered on political grounds.
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For their part, Taipower and its regulator, the Atomic Energy Council, no longer claim, as they once did, that the Lanyu dump contains only very low-level waste such as used gloves.
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But Greenpeace said it gathered enough information to confirm that the site contains much higher-level waste than Taipower, the company that operates Taiwan's three nuclear power stations and the Lanyu dump, had acknowledged.