Pakistan builds new nuclear Power plant (MERGED)

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China is to help Pakistan build a new nuclear power plant in the north of the country, the two sides have announced.
The power plant, to be built at Chashma south of Islamabad by 2010, will be for peaceful purposes, a statement said.

It is the second nuclear plant that China has helped Pakistan construct, and comes after a Pakistani scientist confessed to leaking nuclear secrets.

To allay fears, Islamabad is stressing the new plant will follow International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.

Observers say Tuesday’s deal underlines economic ties between the long-time allies, a day after a car bombing killed three Chinese workers in Pakistan’s south-west.

Representatives from the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and the China National Nuclear Corporation signed the contract, estimated to be worth $600m (£450m).

Western reservations

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.

“It is worth mentioning that Pakistan’s nuclear power plants are under the safeguards of the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency], which is… responsible for monitoring and safeguarding of nuclear power plants,” a statement issued by both parties said.

Khan admitted selling nuclear secrets this year
Pakistan has a parallel nuclear establishment, which runs its nuclear-weapon and missile technology programme.

In February, Pakistan’s best-known nuclear scientist shocked the nation on when he went on television and confessed to leaking nuclear secrets to states such as North Korea, Libya and Iran.

Since Islamabad is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, its weapons programme is not open to international inspections, says BBC Islamabad correspondent Zaffar Abbas.

Pakistan’s first nuclear power plant was built in 1972 in Karachi with Canadian assistance.

Western nations later ceased nuclear co-operation with Islamabad, after it was alleged Pakistan was developing nuclear weapons.

Pakistan conducted nuclear weapons tests in 1998, after its adversary India launched its first nuclear weapon more than a decade earlier.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan builds new nuclear plant

now the chinese engineer loss make sense who was sabaotaging this deal.
Pak china friendship is stronger these lil showdowns.

an other strategic step for Pakistan.

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Re: Pakistan builds new nuclear Power plant

Thankyou China

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I have been hearing about Chashma nuclear plant since I was 8 or 9, aur abhi tak this project is still being announced.

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I have been hearing about Chashma nuclear plant since I was 8 or 9, aur abhi tak this project is still being announced.
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this is second chasma nuclear plant near to the first one! when you were 8 - 9 they were talking about the first one which is completed already.

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I have been hearing about Chashma nuclear plant since I was 8 or 9, aur abhi tak this project is still being announced.
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Spock they already have a facility at chasma did you not know about it?

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Risking the Capital

Aslaama-alaikum!

What is Pakistan doing building nuclear power plants in it's capital? What if india acquired some long range artillary shells and happen to drop or two on the plant, it'll blow whole of the capital sky high.

The desert state is so vast and laying empty. Why don't they build it there instead of taking silly risks. Or is it that China is thinking of using Pakistani nuclear eneregy in an emergency from next door.

I say build it next to the Iranian border and maybe shift one or two tone of radioactive material to the Iranian nuclear scientist.

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China set to approve four N-reactors soon - (01/06/2004)

SINGAPORE: China is set to give final approval as early as June to a plan to build four nuclear reactors by 2010, as the world’s fastest-growing power market grapples with a growing supply gap, Chinese nuclear experts said on Monday. The projects, with total generating capacity of 3,200 megawatts (MW) at an estimated cost of $4 billion, would be built in Qinshan, in eastern Zhejiang province, and Ling Ao, in south China’s Guangdong province. The four reactors would get swifter approval from Beijing than others in the pipeline as they would largely be replicas of current operating reactors using Chinese and French technologies, according to experts.
Daily Times

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Wow, a country of 150 million people (Pakistan) is planning to build 1 Nuclear Reactor...

Wow, a country of 45 million people (South Korea) is planning to build 19 Nuclear Reactors...

*Dildar, you dont need to put links to Aljazeera etc in every single post on this board. *

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Who's paying for all these nuclear projects?

I don't think the Pakistani government has the money for this kind of nuclear ambitions.

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Re: Risking the Capital

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*Originally posted by Dildar: *
Aslaama-alaikum!

What is Pakistan doing building nuclear power plants in it's capital? What if india acquired some long range artillary shells and happen to drop or two on the plant, it'll blow whole of the capital sky high.

The desert state is so vast and laying empty. Why don't they build it there instead of taking silly risks. Or is it that China is thinking of using Pakistani nuclear eneregy in an emergency from next door.

I say build it next to the Iranian border and maybe shift one or two tone of radioactive material to the Iranian nuclear scientist.
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Can you find me one artillary peice that has such a long range? secondly to Gupistani, The Pak Program is Pak funded, appart from what you may think!

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Well Pakistan made the longest range artillary shells in 2000 which could hit deep into Occupied Kashmir (nearly the other side of it infact) and the Europeans were saying it was their designs which Pakistan had stolen.

If Pakistan can do it, can't India do it too. It's a complicated technology. But ever mind the shells, Indians have built the super sonic Brahamos cruise missile specifically designed to target nuclear plants in Pakistan (although the Indians won't admit it) whats' their defence against them which seem to have a enough range to cover the Pakistani capital?

To acquire the Atomic weapons in the 80s and 90s, Pakistan spent $3 billions in two decades. Today Pakistan's total defence budget is just over $3 billion a year, considering Pakistan's poor currency rates how much of that they actually spend on the nuclear weaponary you think?

What really really gets on my nose is, why does Pakistan borrow money for it's defence needs from the US to buy US weapons? Ok, if they do need to borrow the money, why not use it on the development of any indegenious weapons? Borrowing US dollar to create US jobs?

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What really really gets on my nose is, why does Pakistan borrow money for it's defence needs from the US to buy US weapons? Ok, if they do need to borrow the money, why not use it on the development of any indegenious weapons? Borrowing US dollar to create US jobs?
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You are right, but most of the times these loans are tied to buying specific hardware from that country.

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To develop weapons you first need a base design so that is why until we get that design from a firend or through research we need to fulfil our tacticl requirements by purchasing eipment.

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*Originally posted by Dildar Hussain: *
Wow, a country of 150 million people (Pakistan) is planning to build 1 Nuclear Reactor...

Wow, a country of 45 million people (South Korea) is planning to build 19 Nuclear Reactors...

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Pakistan already have two reactors working one in (KNOP )karachi (built by Canada) and one in chasma, this would be third one in chasma, the benefit of this build on the same location it will use already present fuel processing unit as many other neuclear plants in the world based on this pattern.

whatever you say, Pakistan never say whats planned for the future neuclear power plants, so the figure is not correct. Pakistan may have more planned, secondly Pakistan has strong hydel power plants and more could be built which is cheapest energy source.

I dont know if korea has such natural rivers and mountains for such purpose, so they have to plan accordingly.

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I cant belive people are comparing Pakistan to SK.

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*Originally posted by Shak killS: * whatever you say, Pakistan never say whats planned for the future neuclear power plants, so the figure is not correct.
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Pakistan's National Defence budgest is no more than $4 billion, so they have peanuts for buy reacotrs with.

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*Originally posted by Shak killS: * I dont know if korea has such natural rivers and mountains for such purpose, so they have to plan accordingly.
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South Korea doesn't need 'such natural rivers and mountains' when it already has over a dozen nuclear reactors.

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*Originally posted by Enforcer: * I cant belive people are comparing Pakistan to SK.
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Totally agree with you brother. South Korea is the 10/11 richest economy in the world compared to Pakistan's position of over 60 in the list somewhere.

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Totally agree with you brother. South Korea is the 10/11 richest economy in the world compared to Pakistan's position of over 60 in the list somewhere.
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its common habit :) we always compare oursleves with US , UK or other rich counteries for about everything.

i think if we compare with similar nations, we can we have done well. but to keep imporving comparison with superiors ones is always inspiration.

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Well* Pakistan made the longest range artillary shells in 2000 which could hit deep into Occupied Kashmir (nearly the other side of it infact)**
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Seems unrealistic to me. the longest range of artillary shell is in the range of 20 kms.
and the kashmir is alteast few hundred kms wide.