Taipower now has 160,000 barrels of nuclear waste. The agreement with North Korea for 60,000 barrels will help ease the pressure on Taipower to meet the deadline of the ROC Atomic Energy Council to end all storage of low-level nuclear waste at the First Nuclear Power Plant by 1999.
台電目前包括固化以及非固化的核廢料有十六萬桶，此次與北韓簽訂的六萬桶，可使台電面臨原委會限期在民國八十八年終結核一廠代用倉庫的低放射性核廢料處置問題得到紓解。