Pakistan to set up 13 power plants
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, July 15, IRNA
Pakistan-power-China
Pakistan plans to set up 13 new nuclear power plants over the next 25 years.
Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has been assigned a special task by the government to set up plants to generate 8800 megawatts of power in view of growing energy needs of industrial sector, according to a local press report released here Friday.
"The PAEC is directed to step up its efforts to install 13 more power plants both with local and foreign financial/technical support.
Each nuclear power will have a capacity of 600-700 megawatts," daily Dawn said.
Pakistan's first nuclear power plant was built in Karachi in 1972 with Canadian assistance and its second plant - Chashma 1 - was constructed with Chinese assistance in mid 1990s.
The work on 300-megawatt Chashma Nuclear Power Plant 2, started in May.
Chashma Nuclear Power Plant Unit-2 (CHASSNUP-2), due to be constructed in collaboration with Pakistan's close ally China at the town of Chashma, south of Islamabad by 2010, is the second nuclear plant that China has helped Pakistan construct.
Officials say the project is estimated to be worth dlrs 600m. The new 300-megawatt power station will be located next to a plant the Chinese helped to build in the 1990s, also at Chashma, on the banks of the River Indus.
Pakistan has a parallel nuclear establishment, which runs its nuclear-weapon and missile technology program.
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