Pakistan building nuke plant that can yield weapons-grade plutonium

[HAIDER]

Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 04:00 EDT

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is constructing its first commercial-scale nuclear reprocessing plant that would make it possible to produce weapons-grade plutonium for its nuclear weapons program, according to informed sources.

Pakistani scientists and vendors of plant components are working on the reprocessing plant to be installed in a building originally constructed to house a French-manufactured plant in a deal that was canceled in the 1970s. The site is located in Kundian in southern Punjab, about 200 kilometers southwest of Islamabad, the sources said.
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/406002

 

[MirBadshah]

haider I think its an old news, the plant was completed a while back and is in production now i think, there was a lot of noise in westren media about it.

 

[HAIDER]

i think its second plant.

 

[Neo]

haider I think its an old news, the plant was completed a while back and is in production now i think, there was a lot of noise in westren media about it.

Mir, you're probably referring to Chasnupp I and II, abandoned by France in 1978 and completed with Chinese help.

I think this is a new project, unless Kundian is the same place as Chashma in Southern Punjab.
Btw, it will be our second reactor producing weapongrade Pu.

 

[ahussains]

i think Chasnupp II need time to be operational and its 300 MW Reactor .. and it will be operational in 2010 some where

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHASNUPP-2

 

[Neo]

i think Chasnupp II need time to be operational and its 300 MW Reactor .. and it will be operational in 2010 some where

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHASNUPP-2

Chasnupp II will have 2 x 325MW reactor, first onw is in service already according to my knowledge.

 

[HAIDER]

Kundian was secret, it just expose. Nobody ever heard this plant since 1979. Was totally abondoned structure.

 

[Neo]

Thats what I mean, 50MW Heavywater Khushab was also kept secret till US Spy satellites picked it up.

Kundian is a new project.

 

[HAIDER]

Japs love to scan PAK land...

 

[Janbaz]

Kundian is a new project.

Very nice to hear !

 

[HAIDER]

Kundian Fuel Fabrication Plant
Kundian Nuclear Complex I


Kundian is a reactor uranium fuel fabrication facility situated where SGN was to build a 50-100 tU/a spent fuel reprocessing plant (project started in 1974, halted in 1977), located near the Chashma reactor. With an annual production capacity of 24 tons, the facility has been manufacturing fuel for the KANUPP reactor since 1978. The Nuclear Fuel Plant is now known as KNC I - Kundian Nuclear Complex I. This site is not incorporated into IAEA safeguards, but like all related sites, its security is professed by the Pakistani government.

 

[KashifAsrar]

Is it a really a new reactor or an old story revisited?
If it is new then it should be second PU producing reactor.
Are the locations of Chasnupp and Kundian geographically different?
Kashif