Ecuador has no nuclear power reactors or research reactors and no uranium mining or fuel fabrication facilities. The generation of radioactive waste is therefore on a very small scale when compared with countries which have or had such facilities, being limited to radioactive waste arising from the use of radioactive materials in medicine, industry and research/teaching.

The former Ecuadorian Atomic Energy Commission (CEEA), since March 2008, is part of the Ministry of Electricity and Renovable Energy (MEER) as the Subsecretariat of Nuclear Control, Research and Applications (SCIAN) and has collected spent radioactive sources from over 20 years ago and stored them in a unique location within the country. This place, which is a Temporary Radioactive Waste Storage, is located in the Center of Nuclear Studies of Ecuador in a site called Aychapicho, close to the town Aoag.

In september 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy jointly with Schlumberger did repatriate a total of 90 sources: 46 long life sources and 44 short life sources. This means about a 40% decrease in the total number of spent sources storaged in the site.