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Fuel loading begins at KANUPP-2, announces PAEC
1 Dec 2020
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has announced that fuel loading at 1100-megawatt power project of Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP)-2 has begun on Tuesday, ARY NEWS reported.
A spokesman for the PAEC said that the atomic power project constructed near Karachi sea was loaded with fuel today after approval from Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority.
Director General Strategic Plans Division (SPD) Lieutenant General Nadeem Zaki Manj, Chairman PAEC Muhammad Naeem, member power committee of the PAEC and top officials of China was also present on the occasion.
The PAEC spokesman said that the KANUPP-2 is a pressurized water reactor, based on China’s HPR-1 technology of the third generation atomic power plant.
He said that it is equipped with automatic protection systems. “Its construction began in August 2015 and after an operational examination, it will begin producing power from April 2021,” the spokesman said.
A similar nuclear power plant in Karachi, known as KANUPP-3 would start producing electricity at the end of 2021. He said that despite COVID-19 pandemic, the plants are in the final stages of completion.
It is pertinent to mention here that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in March 2017 approved Pakistan’s request for the application of Safeguards for nuclear power plant units K-2 and K-3 in Karachi.
These power plants will serve as an important vehicle to help meet Pakistan’s increasing energy needs and support sustained economic growth and industrial development.
Pakistan has the rare distinction of keeping all its civilian nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards signifying its commitment to global objectives of non-proliferation.
arynews.tv
Pakistan / Fuel Loading Begins At China-Supplied Kanupp-2 Reactor
By David Dalton
2 December 2020
Unit will be first Hualong One to begin operation overseas
Fuel loading has begun at the China-supplied Kanupp-2 nuclear power plant under construction in southern Pakistan with commercial operation scheduled for April 2021, local press reports said.
The reports quoted a spokesperson for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission as saying fuel loading for the HPR1000, or Hualong One plant, began on Tuesday after a permit was issued.
There are two plants, Kanupp-2 and Kanupp-3, under construction at the Kanupp site, also known as Karachi. They are the first of China’s indigenous Generation III HPR1000 reactor design to be built overseas.
Kanupp-3 is scheduled for commercial operation in 2022.
Pakistan has five commercial nuclear reactors which in 2019 provided a 6.6% share of its electricity production.
In October, the Fuqing-5 plant in China became the first Hualong One to achieve first criticality. It was connected to the grid late last month.
The Hualong One is a three-loop pressurised water reactor. It incorporates elements of China National Nuclear Corporation’s ACP1000 and China General Nuclear’s ACPR1000+ reactor designs.
There are eight Hualong One units under construction in China, including Fuqing-5 and -6. The others are two each at Taipingling in Guangdong province, southern China; Zhangzhou in Fujian province, eastern China; and Fangchenggang in Guangxi province in the south of the country.
www.nucnet.org
1 Dec 2020
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has announced that fuel loading at 1100-megawatt power project of Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP)-2 has begun on Tuesday, ARY NEWS reported.
A spokesman for the PAEC said that the atomic power project constructed near Karachi sea was loaded with fuel today after approval from Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority.
Director General Strategic Plans Division (SPD) Lieutenant General Nadeem Zaki Manj, Chairman PAEC Muhammad Naeem, member power committee of the PAEC and top officials of China was also present on the occasion.
The PAEC spokesman said that the KANUPP-2 is a pressurized water reactor, based on China’s HPR-1 technology of the third generation atomic power plant.
He said that it is equipped with automatic protection systems. “Its construction began in August 2015 and after an operational examination, it will begin producing power from April 2021,” the spokesman said.
A similar nuclear power plant in Karachi, known as KANUPP-3 would start producing electricity at the end of 2021. He said that despite COVID-19 pandemic, the plants are in the final stages of completion.
It is pertinent to mention here that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in March 2017 approved Pakistan’s request for the application of Safeguards for nuclear power plant units K-2 and K-3 in Karachi.
These power plants will serve as an important vehicle to help meet Pakistan’s increasing energy needs and support sustained economic growth and industrial development.
Pakistan has the rare distinction of keeping all its civilian nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards signifying its commitment to global objectives of non-proliferation.
Fuel loading begins at KANUPP-2, announces PAEC
The KANUPP-2's construction began in August 2015 and after an operational examination, it will begin producing power from April 2021.
arynews.tv
By David Dalton
2 December 2020
Unit will be first Hualong One to begin operation overseas
Fuel loading has begun at the China-supplied Kanupp-2 nuclear power plant under construction in southern Pakistan with commercial operation scheduled for April 2021, local press reports said.
The reports quoted a spokesperson for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission as saying fuel loading for the HPR1000, or Hualong One plant, began on Tuesday after a permit was issued.
There are two plants, Kanupp-2 and Kanupp-3, under construction at the Kanupp site, also known as Karachi. They are the first of China’s indigenous Generation III HPR1000 reactor design to be built overseas.
Kanupp-3 is scheduled for commercial operation in 2022.
Pakistan has five commercial nuclear reactors which in 2019 provided a 6.6% share of its electricity production.
In October, the Fuqing-5 plant in China became the first Hualong One to achieve first criticality. It was connected to the grid late last month.
The Hualong One is a three-loop pressurised water reactor. It incorporates elements of China National Nuclear Corporation’s ACP1000 and China General Nuclear’s ACPR1000+ reactor designs.
There are eight Hualong One units under construction in China, including Fuqing-5 and -6. The others are two each at Taipingling in Guangdong province, southern China; Zhangzhou in Fujian province, eastern China; and Fangchenggang in Guangxi province in the south of the country.
Pakistan / Fuel Loading Begins At China-Supplied Kanupp-2 Reactor
Unit will be first Hualong One to begin operation overseas
www.nucnet.org
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