The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Storage Site, formerly Lanyu Storage Site (traditional Chinese: 蘭嶼貯存場; simplified Chinese: 兰屿贮存场; pinyin: Lányǔ Zhùcún Chǎng), is a facility to store all of the nuclear waste produced by three nuclear power plants in the Republic of China in Lanyu Island, Taitung County.
[1] In the early 1970s, the Atomic Energy Council (AEC) formed a task group to search for sites as a temporary storage facility for mid and low-level nuclear waste.
[2] The facility receives low-level radioactive solid waste from nuclear power plants, medical, agriculture, industrial, education and research sectors about 45,000 barrels annually, which is being shipped by boat from Taiwan Island every week.
[5] According to Lin Xin-yu, an elderly member from the Jivalino tribe of Lanyu, when the government decided to build a radioactive waste storage site in Longmen, it deceived local residents by calling it a canned fish factory[7].
However, the Atomic Energy Council pointed out that right from the beginning the Lanyu project never used the term "canning factory" to cover up the establishment of a storage site.