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| Battling Energy Crisis, Pakistan Turns on Fourth Nuclear Plant |
| 2016-12-29 |
| [AnNahar] Pakistain's fourth nuclear power plant went online Wednesday, a joint collaboration with China that adds 340 megawatts to the national grid as part of the goverment's efforts to end a growth-sapping energy deficit. Pakistain is one of the few developing countries pursuing atomic energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, as it seeks to close an electricity shortfall that can stretch up to 7,000 MW in peak summer months, or around 32 percent of total demand. The Chashma-III reactor, located some 250 kilometres (155 miles) southwest of capital Islamabad, is the third built as part of a collaboration between the Pakistain Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). The country's first nuclear plant was supplied by Canada in 1972, with an installed capacity of 137 MW. "Today we have crossed an important milestone in the journey to free the nation from scheduled power cuts. I am thankful to Allah and congratulate the entire nation," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... told an inaugural ceremony attended by Chinese and Pak officials. He added a fourth Chashma plant was expected to be commissioned by April 2017. Two more reactors would follow at an unspecified date in central Pakistain, as well as two giant 2,200 MW power stations in southern Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Islamabad is aiming to produce 8,800 MW from atomic energy by 2030. Pakistain has been struggling to provide enough power to its nearly 200 million citizens for years, and Sharif has vowed to solve the crisis by 2018. The energy sector has traditionally struggled to cover the cost of producing electricity, leading the government to divert $2 billion annually as a subsidy, according to a recent report commissioned by the British government. China meanwhile is ramping up investment in its South Asian neighbour as part of a $46 billion project unveiled last year that will link its far-western Xinjiang region to Pakistain's Gwadar port with a series of infrastructure, power and transport upgrades. Last week Pakistain's main bourse announced that a Chinese consortium was set to acquire a 40 percent stake in the stock exchange in a deal estimated at $84 million. Shanghai Electric announced in August it would buy a majority stake in the utility that supplies energy to Karachi for $1.7 billion, in the country's biggest ever private-sector acquisition. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Wait till the counterfeit alloy steel pipes shatter, like in the Chinese power plant that killed two people. Pic HERE. ID printing on pipe showed a different material than actual. Caveat Emptor. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-12-29 19:08 |
| #5 What could go wrong? If it happens in Pakistan it won't be wrong. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-12-29 14:06 |
| #4 Chinese knockoff (with the typical Sino cost-saving 'tweaks') of a very good French pressurized water reactor design, built by a Chinese firm with a long list of scandal and corruption (with probably some more Paki 'tweaks'). What could go wrong? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-12-29 10:46 |
| #3 8,800 MW from atomic energy by 2030 Gonna take a lotta goats. |
| Posted by: Marilyn McCoy1772 2016-12-29 07:13 |
| #2 Well at least they are doing more than obama to fight CO2 production. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2016-12-29 07:09 |
| #1 Babar, the smoke, the blue smoke, behold! Is that good Babar? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-12-29 02:50 |