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News Update:
CDWP approves Rs 13.3bn nuclear fuel enrichment plant
Ref:http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=9257
By Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Thursday accorded approval to first Nuclear Fuel Enrichment Plant at the cost of Rs 13.307 billion. This landmark development was initiated in bid to lead Pakistan seriously towards attaining the goal of enriching nuclear fuel indigenously to reduce the dependency on its import.
The cost includes foreign exchange component of Rs 8.136 billion. The project will be funded through public sector development programme and will be located at Chak Jhumra, Faisalabad in Punjab province. The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission is the sponsoring agency of the most important and sensitive project.
The objective of the project is to install 150 ton per year Nuclear Enrichment Plant which will provide fuel for nuclear power generation reactors. About the project available with The News, the project will be completed in three phases. Each phase will be completed during the span of five to six years in which one module will be set up having the capacity to enrich about 150 ton per year feed natural (FN) gas and a Separative Power of 100 ton Separative Work Unit (SWU-kg/year). Hence at this pace, four modules will be set up till 2030 and will enrich uranium, fulfilling minimum of 33% fuel requirement of 8,800 MW capacity nuclear reactors.
The gas centrifuge uranium enrichment process uses a large number of rotating cylinders in series and parallel formations. Centrifuges are interconnected to form trains and cascades. In this process, uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas is placed in a cylinder and rotated at a high speed. This rotation creates a strong centrifugal force so that the heavier gas molecules, containing uranium-238, move towards the outside of the cylinder and the lighter gas molecules, containing uraninum-235 is withdrawn and fed into the next higher stage, while the slightly depleted stream is recycled back into the next lower stage. The energy security action plan has envisaged increasing the share of nuclear power from 1 per cent to 4.2 per cent by installing 888 mw nuclear power plants by 2030.
News Update:
CDWP approves Rs 13.3bn nuclear fuel enrichment plant
Ref:http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=9257
By Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Thursday accorded approval to first Nuclear Fuel Enrichment Plant at the cost of Rs 13.307 billion. This landmark development was initiated in bid to lead Pakistan seriously towards attaining the goal of enriching nuclear fuel indigenously to reduce the dependency on its import.
The cost includes foreign exchange component of Rs 8.136 billion. The project will be funded through public sector development programme and will be located at Chak Jhumra, Faisalabad in Punjab province. The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission is the sponsoring agency of the most important and sensitive project.
The objective of the project is to install 150 ton per year Nuclear Enrichment Plant which will provide fuel for nuclear power generation reactors. About the project available with The News, the project will be completed in three phases. Each phase will be completed during the span of five to six years in which one module will be set up having the capacity to enrich about 150 ton per year feed natural (FN) gas and a Separative Power of 100 ton Separative Work Unit (SWU-kg/year). Hence at this pace, four modules will be set up till 2030 and will enrich uranium, fulfilling minimum of 33% fuel requirement of 8,800 MW capacity nuclear reactors.
The gas centrifuge uranium enrichment process uses a large number of rotating cylinders in series and parallel formations. Centrifuges are interconnected to form trains and cascades. In this process, uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas is placed in a cylinder and rotated at a high speed. This rotation creates a strong centrifugal force so that the heavier gas molecules, containing uranium-238, move towards the outside of the cylinder and the lighter gas molecules, containing uraninum-235 is withdrawn and fed into the next higher stage, while the slightly depleted stream is recycled back into the next lower stage. The energy security action plan has envisaged increasing the share of nuclear power from 1 per cent to 4.2 per cent by installing 888 mw nuclear power plants by 2030.
