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Pakistan
Under Construction
2
Operating
5
Number of Reactors
(as of June 2019)
15.9
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of June 2019)
6.2%
Increase
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2017)
78
Annual Load Factor
(2017)
The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).
WNISR
Essential News –
6 July 2017
Grid Connection of Chasnupp-4 in Pakistan
Grid Connection of Chasnupp-4 in Pakistan World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
), 5 July 2017 On 29 June 2017, the 4
th
unit at the Chasnupp (Chashma Nuclear Power Plant) in Pakistan was connected to the grid. Construction started at the Chinese designed reactor in December 2011 and follows a similar project completion, unit 3, in 2016. This is the 5
th
nuclear reactor in Pakistan. In 2016, nuclear supplied just 4 percent of the country’s electricity. Chasnupp-4 is only the second (...)