PSDP 2018 -2019 Highlights and Discussion

[Karl]

Some highlights of PSDP 2018 -2019

http://pc.gov.pk/uploads/archives/PSDP_2018-19_Final.pdf

PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

National Tokomak Fusion Program - Hopefully this is for an actual Tokamak reactor like China's HT-6B/6M or HT-7.

Expenditure up to 30.06.2018 - 100.000 (Rupees Million)
Allocation 2018-19 - 166.231 (Rupees Million)

Acquisition and Development of Land for NPP Project Site Rangpur ? Is this the same project as the NPP in Muzzafargarh?? Who knows. Hopefully it's an indigenous NPP development.

Estimated Cost 1350.000 (Rupees Million)
Allocation 2018-19 - 300.000 (Rupees Million)


Pakistan Research Reactor-3 (10MWthupgradeable to 20 MWth) - YES!! NEW PARR-3 Research reactor as I predicted!!!

Estimated Cost 4000.000 (Rupees Million)
Allocation 2018-19 - 700.000 (Rupees Million)

S U P A R C O
New Schemes:

Establishment of Space Applications Research Centre Gilgit-Baltistan

Pakistan Multi-Mission Satellite (PakSat-MMI), Lahore & Karachi

Pakistan Space Center (PSC), Islamabad, Lahore & Karachi (China)

Would have liked to have seen more $ for an indigenous NPP based off Kanupp-1, laser enrichment, SLV and Space launch facility but good schemes getting approved overall. Hope to see results!

What are you highlights?

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[Deltaviper]

These are peanuts. Need to increase the budgetary allocation for these initiatives by about a 100 fold for it to make any meaningful sense. As an example, the 166 million rupees allocated for fusion research come to about US$ 1.2 million. That's embarrassingly low if you compare it with any practical fusion program in the world. the ITER (expected commisioning date 2025) is expected to cost more than US$ 22 billion... On a side note, India is a partner in ITER but we are not. Utter shame, since if we do not join in these multilateral initiatives from the get-go, it will highly unlikely for us to acquire the tech later on given the global political narrative.