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China firms join controversial Pakistan nuclear push
Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:14am GMT Print | Single Page[-] Text [+] By Chris Buckley
ref:http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFTOE65N02E20100624
BEIJING June 24 (Reuters) - Chinese companies this month quietly signed a contract to cooperate in building two nuclear reactors at Pakistan's Chashma atomic complex, advancing a controversial project that has worried Washington and India.
The China Nuclear Industry Fifth Construction Company and the CNNC China Zhongyuan Engineering Corp, which specialises in foreign nuclear projects, agreed to work together on the third and fourth plants at the Chashma complex, according to a Chinese-language announcement on the website of the Construction Company (?????????????).
The deal, signed in Shanghai on June 8, confirmed that long-running plans about Chinese help in expanding Chashma are moving forward, despite misgivings in the region and beyond about security and proliferation risks in troubled Pakistan.
A Pakistani government official said there was nothing new in the agreement and that it was part of an ongoing cooperation with China in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
"China has long been cooperating with Pakistan for the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and this cooperation is continuing," the official said.
The pressurized water reactors are "a major cooperative project between China and Pakistan that both governments treat as highly important," said the company announcement dated the same day as the signing, which received almost no domestic media attention at the time.
The project will "bring Chinese nuclear energy to the world and is significant for once again bearing firm fruit for Sino-Pakistani friendship," said the company.
It did not give any details about the timing and cost of the project. The companies have worked on earlier reactors at Chashma.
Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:14am GMT Print | Single Page[-] Text [+] By Chris Buckley
ref:http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFTOE65N02E20100624
BEIJING June 24 (Reuters) - Chinese companies this month quietly signed a contract to cooperate in building two nuclear reactors at Pakistan's Chashma atomic complex, advancing a controversial project that has worried Washington and India.
The China Nuclear Industry Fifth Construction Company and the CNNC China Zhongyuan Engineering Corp, which specialises in foreign nuclear projects, agreed to work together on the third and fourth plants at the Chashma complex, according to a Chinese-language announcement on the website of the Construction Company (?????????????).
The deal, signed in Shanghai on June 8, confirmed that long-running plans about Chinese help in expanding Chashma are moving forward, despite misgivings in the region and beyond about security and proliferation risks in troubled Pakistan.
A Pakistani government official said there was nothing new in the agreement and that it was part of an ongoing cooperation with China in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
"China has long been cooperating with Pakistan for the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and this cooperation is continuing," the official said.
The pressurized water reactors are "a major cooperative project between China and Pakistan that both governments treat as highly important," said the company announcement dated the same day as the signing, which received almost no domestic media attention at the time.
The project will "bring Chinese nuclear energy to the world and is significant for once again bearing firm fruit for Sino-Pakistani friendship," said the company.
It did not give any details about the timing and cost of the project. The companies have worked on earlier reactors at Chashma.
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