Govt to kick off work on 1,100MW nuclear power plant

[farhan_9909]

The government has decided to go ahead with work on a 1,100-megawatt nuclear power plant in Karachi with Chinese assistance from the next financial year in an effort to ease energy shortages in the country.

According to sources, the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) will build the power plant named Karachi Coastal Power and costing an estimated $9.5 billion.

At present, Pakistan has two nuclear power plants – Chashma 1 and 2 – each with a capacity of 320MW and built with Chinese assistance. Work on Chashma 3 and 4 power plants is also under way.
Officials say of the total cost of Rs950 billion ($9.5 billion) for Karachi Coastal Power, the government is likely to allocate Rs7.5 billion in the budget for the next financial year, beginning July. Apart from this, it is planning to secure Rs65 billion in foreign lending to give a push to the project.

The government is also in contact with China to purchase two nuclear power plants with a combined capacity of 2,000MW, which will be utilised for setting up Karachi Nuclear Power Plant-2 (Kanupp-2) and Kanupp-3 to tackle the energy crisis.

In case of Kanupp-2 and 3, the Planning Commission had said Chinese company – China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) – may be asked to grant intellectual property rights and suggest steps that could help Pakistan avoid violation of property rights.

"In case of 1,100MW Karachi Coastal Power, Pakistan will also require intellectual property rights," an official said.

China has three state-owned corporations that can own and operate nuclear power plants including CNNC, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Company (CGNPC) and China Power Investment Corporation (CPIC).

CGNPC operates four nuclear power plants of 3,758MW in China and is also associated with 16 other under-construction projects having capacity of 25,000MW. The company's main focus has been on three-loop 1,000MW plants.

In an attempt to increase power generation, Pakistan is turning attention to producing nuclear energy on a relatively bigger scale. According to the Energy Security Action Plan, the share of nuclear power will be increased in electricity production by installing 8,800MW nuclear power plants by 2030.

Nuclear plants will provide electricity at cheaper rates compared to power produced from thermal sources. At present, the country is experiencing a widening gap between power supply and demand, leading to extensive outages that disrupt life and business and shaves three percentage points off economic growth annually.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 7th, 2013.


Govt to kick off work on 1,100MW nuclear power plant – The Express Tribune

 

[farhan_9909]

Notice that this is not the part of Kanup series reactor

Last month deal for Kanup 2 1000mw plant was signed
this is a new deal for a new series of nuclear reactors

The government is also in contact with China to purchase two nuclear power plants with a combined capacity of 2,000MW, which will be utilised for setting up Karachi Nuclear Power Plant-2 (Kanupp-2) and Kanupp-3 to tackle the energy crisis.

 

[Agnostic Muslim]

Pakistan to start work on Chinese-aided nuclear power plant

The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission has received the green light to start work on a second nuclear power plant in Karachi with Chinese assistance, according to an authoritative official speaking on condition of anonymity.

The official said that the federal budget revealed Wednesday has allocated $60 million for acquisition of land for the second Karachi Nuclear Power Plant, known as KANUPP-2, in the vicinity of the existing Karachi Nuclear Power Plant, known as KANUPP-1.

KANUPP-1, with an installed capacity of 137 megawatts, went into operation in 1970 and is currently operating at less than half its capacity.

While reports have been cropping up in the international media about KANUPP-2, which is expected to cost $9.6 billion and produce around 1,000 MW, it is the first time that government documents and officials have revealed Chinese involvement in the project.

China helped Pakistan in the construction of two 300 MW nuclear power plants at Chashma in Punjab province.

Although the Vienna-based Nuclear Supplier Group has opposed the supply of nuclear power plants to Pakistan by its member China, the latter has maintained that its agreement with Pakistan for cooperation in civil nuclear technology was signed in the 1980s before China joined the NSG.

The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission has chalked out a plan to install 8,000 MW of nuclear energy by 2025 from the present capacity of approximately 700 MW supplied by the plants in Karachi and Chashma.

Pakistan to start work on Chinese-aided nuclear power plant | GlobalPost

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The news in April that the CNNC had signed an export contract for the ACP-1000 reactor with an unnamed country now appears to be solidifying with Pakistan as the customer - the IAEA appears to have classified the ACP-1000 as a 'third generation reactor':

CNP-1000, also CNP-600, CNP-300 (ACP 300, ACP600, ACP1000)

CNNC had been working with Westinghouse and Framatome (now Areva) at SNERDI since the early 1990s to develop a Chinese standard three-loop PWR design, the CNP-1000. This is developed from the 2-loop Qinshan CNP-300 unit (scaled up to the two-loop CNP-600 units, also at Qinshan), with high (60 GWd/t) burn-up, 18-month refueling cycle and 20 more fuel assemblies than the French-origin units.b In 1997, the Nuclear Power Institute of China (NPIC) at Chengdu became involved in the reactor design and, early in 2007, SNERDI was reassigned to concentrate on the AP1000 program.

CNNC has been keen to create its own brand of advanced second-generation reactor with full intellectual property rights, and wanted to build two initial CNP-1000 plants at Fangjiashan, adjacent to Qinshan near Shanghai, under the 11th Economic Plan, though the design probably would not have been ready. In early 2007, the CNP-1000 development was put on hold, though this aborted export plans for two CNP-1000 units to Pakistan.

Further CNP-600 units are being built at Qinshan and Changjiang, Hainan. CNNC says they are free of French intellectual property rights. CNNC is also developing the design to the ACP600 which it calls a third-generation design and expects to be able to built on Hainan or in the northwest Gansu province about 2013 and exported.c It will have double containment, 18-24 month refueling cycle, digital I&C, and 60-year plant life.

In October 2011 CNNC announced that its independently-developed ACP1000 was entering the engineering design stage, initially for Fuqing units 5 & 6, with 1100 MWe nominal power and load-following capability. It has 177 fuel assemblies 3.66 m long, 18-month refuelling interval, and a 60-year design life. It has three coolant loops delivering 3060 MWt, double containment and active safety systems with some passive elements. Average burnup 45,000 MWd/tU. Seismic shutdown is at 300 gal. In May 2013 CNNC said it has finished a preliminary safety analysis report, and it is now working on construction design in order to be ready for construction by the end of the year. CNNC expects to build the first in 2014, at Fuqing, with 85% local content, and in April 2013 announced an export agreement for an ACP1000, apparently for Pakistan. CNNC asserts full intellectual property rights for the CNP series of reactors, which have evolved to the ACP series.

Two new 300 MWe CNP-300 PWR units are being built at Chasma in Pakistan by the China Zhongyuan Engineering Corporation. They are similar to those already commissioned in 2000 and 2011, and similar to Qinshan 1 – China's first indigenously-designed (by SNERDI) nuclear power plant.

CNNC was seeking to sell the CNP-300 to Belarus and in Africa, and these will probably now become ACP300.

 

[Yusuf]

More proliferation

 

[Agnostic Muslim]

More proliferation

Proliferation of civilian nuclear technology under IAEA safeguards?

 

[farhan_9909]

well this deal is diffrent from the kanup 2...negotiation for kanup 2 are still ON,

we may see

2x320mw chashma plant under construction
1x this 1100mw
1xkanup II 1000mw
1xNPFC 1000mw

except the kanup II.for the rest construction has also begun.while for this latest work will likely begin within few months.

Beside this pakistan does has the capability of manufacturing a modified Candu design reactor of 300mw capacity on its own

 

[Agnostic Muslim]

well this deal is diffrent from the kanup 2...negotiation for kanup 2 are still ON,

we may see

2x320mw chashma plant under construction
1x this 1100mw
1xkanup II 1000mw
1xNPFC 1000mw

except the kanup II.for the rest construction has also begun.while for this latest work will likely begin within few months.

Beside this pakistan does has the capability of manufacturing a modified Candu design reactor of 300mw capacity on its own

As the earlier article indicated, this particular project could be the 'Karachi Coastal Power' NPP.

It will be interesting to see if KANUPP 2 and 3 negotiations are over the ACP-1000 or the ACPR-1000.

 

[farhan_9909]

As the earlier article indicated, this particular project could be the 'Karachi Coastal Power' NPP.

It will be interesting to see if KANUPP 2 and 3 negotiations are over the ACP-1000 or the ACPR-1000.

so what is the major difference between ACP 1000 and ACPR 1000?

 

[Payeng]

Proliferation of civilian nuclear technology under IAEA safeguards?

Are Pakistani Nuclear power plants under IAEA safeguards?

 

[sukhish]

so what is the major difference between ACP 1000 and ACPR 1000?

great news for Pakistan, so when is Pakistan getting an NSG waiver.

 

[Agnostic Muslim]

Are Pakistani Nuclear power plants under IAEA safeguards?

Yes they are ...

 

[Agnostic Muslim]

so what is the major difference between ACP 1000 and ACPR 1000?

No significant difference in terms of output, but the ACPR1000 has additional automation and safety features.

 

[sukhish]

No significant difference in terms of output, but the ACPR1000 has additional automation and safety features.

are we sure that they will be built ?

 

[Agnostic Muslim]

are we sure that they will be built ?

The 2013 budget allocated $60 million for the Coastal Power project, and CNNC announced in April 2013 that it had signed its first export contract for the ACP-1000 with an 'unidentified country'.

Outside of Pakistan I don't see who that 'unidentified country' could be, and the budget allocation appears to confirm that Pakistan and China have signed a contract for at least one 1000MW NPP.

 

[Yusuf]

Proliferation of civilian nuclear technology under IAEA safeguards?

We know what that means. Chashma!

 

[Agnostic Muslim]

We know what that means. Chashma!

What is wrong with Chashma?

 

[Yusuf]

What is wrong with Chashma?

Nothing. Pakis can do no wrong. World called it proliferation under the garb off technicalities like grand fathering and what not

 

[Agnostic Muslim]

Nothing. Pakis can do no wrong. World called it proliferation under the garb off technicalities like grand fathering and what not

Proliferation of what? Civilian nuclear technology? Nothing wrong with that.

 

[Blackwater]

What is wrong with Chashma?

Chashma ke number theek nahi ha, dhundala nazaar a raha ha

 

[Tshering22]

Then why are you still cribbing about the US-India deal?

You're getting what you want.

So enjoy that rather than crying what we sign.