Nuclear Power: Chashma plants to be completed by 2016

PAEC envisages production of 8,800 MW of power by the year 2030 through these nuclear power reactors.

ISLAMABAD: Two nuclear power plants, 340MW each, are under construction at Chashma and are expected to be commissioned by 2016, with Chinese assistance.

Construction of these power plants became possible after a long-standing agreement was reached.

According to official sources, a major chunk of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission’s (PAEC) budget has been allocated to the two nuclear power plants, adding that  PAEC envisages production of 8,800 MW of power by the year 2030 through nuclear power reactors.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 23^rd, 2013.