Pakistan to construct two nuclear power plants with Chinese help

[Turborama]

Source: PTI

Islamabad: Pakistan has given a go ahead for construction of two more nuclear power plants of 340 MW each with the Chinese help at the Chashma complex at a cost of USD 2.37 billion, a media report said on Monday.

The two plants, to be supplied by China, will involve a foreign exchange component of USD 1.75 billion, the Business Recorder newspaper quoted its sources as saying.

The government has approved the proposal, but it was not made part of the formal agenda of a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council and was distributed among members of the panel and provincial officials at the end of the meeting without necessary details, the sources were quoted as saying.

“Please do not seek any details and clarification about the project. Approve it in the national interest,” one official reportedly told the committee’s meeting.

Read more: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1247392

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Erm, does anyone know what they intend to do with their radioactive waste?



Edited due to problem with the link.

[nyy1998]

1. Well, there's 2 plants that will taken over in a few months anyway

If they actually get construction going.....Doesn't Pakistan have more pressing concerns then nuclear power? They could spend $2.37 billion in better ways then letting the US subsidize their incompetence.

[elleng]

3. Pakistani people and businesses need power;

about 30-40% of the time, businesses don't have power, and individuals don't have power about 50% of the time.

[Tempest]

6. So does Iran

But for some reason, everyone raises a fuss when they want to supply energy to their country.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Crap! I hope they don't use contamined Chinese plutonium

or drywall or whatever.

[Deep13]

4. So, they can make civilian power without enriched uranium, right?

I hope so.

[elleng]

7. For power plants, uranium has to be slightly enriched, about 5%;

for bombs, it has to be enriched about 90%.

[salguine]

5. Hope they don't use any drywall building those nuke plants. Or paint.