Taipower officials say that shipment of such low-level nuclear waste does not violate international safeguards against nuclear weapons proliferation. Nor is it like nuclear fuel, whose disposal would require the agreement of the US. Still less is there any need to apply to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The contract between Taipower and North Korea is completely consistent with relevant international and domestic regulations.
台電高層主管表示，低放射性核廢料的處置不涉及國際核子保防協定有關限制核武擴散規定，也不像一般使用過的核燃料，必須與美國簽訂三邊核子保防協定，更不需要向國際原子能總署報備申請，台電與北韓的合約相當單純，完全符合國際間的相關規定，以及兩國的核子管理相關法令。