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Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday inaugurated the country's fifth nuclear power plant C-4 at Chashma, Mianwali area, reported DawnNews.
The C-4 plant is capable of generating 340MW electricity.
Addressing the inauguration ceremony, PM Abbasi said that the project would help the country's energy problem.
The Chashma nuclear power projects units, C-1, C-2 and C-3 have already been successfully contributing to the national grid, he said, adding that two large nuclear power plants, K-2 and K-3, were also under construction that he hoped would be operational soon.
Abbasi said that the nuclear plants produce economical electricity; more power generation projects would be launched in Chashma and Muzaffarabad areas, he added.
The prime minister thanked the government of China for its cooperation and said that the projects could not have been completed without the support of Chinese people and the government.
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Sep 08, 2017 01:58pm
Good news and this should help to improve our current energy crisis. We need more plants to overcome shortages and meet the country's demand.
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Sep 08, 2017 02:00pm
well done. Keep it up.
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Sep 08, 2017 02:01pm
Why not invest in renewable energy?
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Sep 08, 2017 02:04pm
Welcome to the club and thanks to the great land and people of the People's Republic of China for their consistent and persistent support to the land and the people of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Keep it up and hang on tough. May God Almighty bless the sincere and dedicated friendship of the two neighbors and make it more solid, reinforced and ever lasting in the days to come. Aameen, Tsum Ameen.
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Sep 08, 2017 02:09pm
sucessful energy policy of pmln is bearing fruits and will be more energy in near future
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Sep 08, 2017 02:10pm
Hopefully no glitches and the project will be implemented on time
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Sep 08, 2017 02:13pm
Excellent - very well done!
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Sep 08, 2017 02:15pm
@Khawaja It has been completed and successfully connected to the national grid.
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Sep 08, 2017 02:15pm
Nuclear energy is the cheapest. Pakistan should have more of those, but with all the safety features.
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Sep 08, 2017 02:17pm
Thank you China for your generous help.
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Sep 08, 2017 02:33pm
All untried Chinese Nuclear plants are being thrusted on Pakistan
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Sep 08, 2017 02:36pm
Lets hope this will help in revival of our industrial units.
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Sep 08, 2017 02:44pm
I can't stop thinking why are we going for the smaller generating nuclear plants. Is there more kicks back involved in the smaller power projects. ?
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Sep 08, 2017 02:56pm
Good news. It will add its bit to prosperity of our country.
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Sep 08, 2017 02:59pm
Credit goes to NS and be recognized.
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Sep 08, 2017 03:02pm
PML-N government's hard work to alleviate the energy crisis has started to pay off. Well done guys.
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Sep 08, 2017 03:10pm
Technological progress is the key for future. Significant achievement indeed.
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Sep 08, 2017 03:11pm
Congratulations Pakistan and pl keep it safe
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Sep 08, 2017 03:18pm
@Naheem baby steps u need know how to make big ones.
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Sep 08, 2017 03:21pm
Happy to know of this development. We must study and adopt best possible economical and renewable power generation , simultaneously with nuclear.
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Sep 08, 2017 05:27pm
Nuclear power is not the future of our country both in terms of capital investment and their environmental consequences. The future lies in the renewable energy. The price of solar panels has dropped down significantly low due to Chinese mass production. There is an urgent need to promulgate the policy to provide incentives to produce renewable energy both at micro and macro level. Wind turbines are also suitable in the coastal areas of the country. The energy drought can only be overcome with a step forward in the right direction which is unfortunately not the case.
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Sep 08, 2017 05:33pm
This time PM comment is correct that this project will help improve the energy shortage in Pakistan.The solution of Pakistan energy shortage is to adopt energy mix solution.The GOP is this tenure have worked closely to adopt this solution.Well done PML (N).
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Sep 08, 2017 05:39pm
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad nice
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Sep 08, 2017 05:39pm
@Asif Kahsmiri What was?
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Sep 08, 2017 06:06pm
Now it is becoming more important to improve our energy mix in a way that cost of power generation goes down considerably.
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Sep 08, 2017 07:09pm
Good work must be appreciated across the parties.
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Sep 08, 2017 08:55pm
We need 1000MV+ reactors.
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Sep 08, 2017 09:22pm
Weldon
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Sep 08, 2017 09:47pm
1% of Pakistan's electricity comes from coal. Compared to over 70% in India.
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Sep 08, 2017 10:02pm
Thank you Nawaz Sharif
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Sep 08, 2017 10:25pm
@MSAlvi : Nuclear energy is not the cheapest as you say. Wind power is cheapest energy, EU analysis finds
Onshore windfarms far cheaper than coal and gas when health impacts are factored in, report shows
Onshore wind is cheaper than coal, gas or nuclear energy when the costs of ‘external’ factors like air quality, human toxicity and climate change are taken into account, according to an EU analysis.
The report says that for every megawatt hour (MW/h) of electricity generated, onshore wind costs roughly €105 (£83) per MW/h, compared to gas and coal which can cost up to around €164 and €233 per MW/h, respectively.
Nuclear power, offshore wind and solar energy are all comparably inexpensive generators, at roughly €125 per MW/h.
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Sep 08, 2017 10:25pm
I hope that it works safely and does the job which it is intended to do.
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Sep 08, 2017 11:44pm
Keep it up
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Sep 08, 2017 11:51pm
this is v cheap way of generating electricity once it starts working... however the save and clean is still hydel plus it will help u store water for bad times
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Sep 09, 2017 01:19am
@Mein Huun Pakistan
Coal is deadly and being phased out in developed countries, but health is not an issue for our leaders.
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Sep 09, 2017 04:06am
@Muhammad Tahir Jamali, They will receive generous returns as well,
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Sep 09, 2017 05:54am
The nuclear plant at Chasma should be named after North Korean leader Kim jong un.
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Sep 09, 2017 07:01am
Congrats
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Sep 09, 2017 07:10am
A great step towards energy independence and end of load shedding . I am hopeful that my next trip to my motherland will have no load shedding .
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Sep 09, 2017 07:33am
Nuclear plant 340 MW is the first design of China. It was copied from Canadian and US designs that are 40-50 years old. China is building reactors now that are 1400-1500 MW capacity. It is well known that operating a 340 MW reactor is expensive. It does not have economy of scale. In USA reactors less than 900 MW capacity have been closed down long time back. It is a bad investment.
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Sep 09, 2017 09:07am
Drama continues.
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