Yesterday, the AEC supplied Taichung police with 3,000 posters showing what the lost radioactive rods look like. The AEC has posted a NT$20,000 reward for finding any of the five.
Taiwan's lax regulation of radioactive materials has been criticized since the early 1980s, when rebar contaminated with cobalt-60 was discovered in the construction in several counties in Taiwan.
In January this year, the High Court ruled that the AEC should offer people who lived in Taipei's Minsheng Villas (
On Monday, AEC Chairman Ouyang said that the agency would not appeal the decision and would pay over NT$70 million to cover the compensation, lawyers' fees and related expenses.
"This is not in any way a solution to the problem of careless oversight of radioactive sources," said Wei-chieh (賴偉傑), secretary-general of the Green Citizens' Action Alliance, a Taipei-based anti-nuclear group.
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