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U.S.-India Nuclear Deal Spurs Pakistan Nuclear Pact With China


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Islamabad and Beijing will set up a corporation shortly to build nuclear and coal-based power plants in Pakistan. The decision to form the China-Pakistan Power Plant Corporation was taken during Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s visit to China last month.

Sources said China had promised to help meet Pakistan’s nuclear energy requirements of 8,800 MW by 2030 by expediting the delivery of six plants of 300 MW each. Earlier, the country had assisted Pakistan in setting up the Chashma-1 and Chashma-2 plants of the same capacity.

The sources said that several joint working groups and studies were being undertaken by the two countries to speed up cooperation in different fields, particularly the energy sector.

“But side by side, Pakistan is building a $1.2 billion facility to develop capability to manufacture full-cycle nuclear fuel and power plants,” the sources said. They said the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) would establish the Pakistan Nuclear Power Fuel Complex (PNPFC) to attain 100 per cent indigenous capability to manufacture pressurised water reactors (PWR) and nuclear power plants.

Pakistan had taken the decision to set up the complex in the face of nuclear suppliers’ denial of the technology to all except favoured ones. They cited as example the US deal with India on civil nuclear technology sales.
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1 response // U.S.-India Nuclear Deal Spurs Pakistan Nuclear Pact With China

  • A new Cold War? Or is this the new covert way for countries to build up their nuclear arsenals without looking as though they are violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty? I can't see a good outcome to this.

    And as the first sentence reveals, China will now also be building coal plants in Pakistan. This is criminal in light of the information regarding coal plants and the pollution and death they bring and their contribution to the climate crisis. For China to then say they care about addressing climate change is a bald faced lie.

    Just where are we heading with all of this? Where is the international community in standing up to this? They have meetings in Bali, Poland, and everywhere to discuss climate change and the urgency to address it, and then nothing. So I suppose the question then is: what will we do to destroy ourselves first? Obliterate ourselves in a nuclear war, or let global warming do it?
    JanforGore

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