The Kundian Nuclear Fuel Complex (KNFC) is a nuclear fuel manufacturing and fabrication plant located in Kundian in

Mianwali District The Mianwali District () is a Districts of Pakistan, district located in the Sargodha Division of the Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab province of Pakistan. Mianwali District remained part of Rawalpindi Division until 1963, when Mianwali District beca ...

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. The plant is owned by the

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) () is a federally funded independent governmental agency, concerned with research and development of nuclear power, promotion of nuclear science, energy conservation and the peaceful use of nuclear techn ...

(PAEC), which manufactures and, henceforth, supplies the

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bundles and reactor cores to the nation's commercial nuclear power plant. It has an annual capacity of producing of natural uranium oxide fuel as well as zirconium alloy cladding and reactor core components.

History

The Kundian Nuclear Fuel Complex was established by the scientists and engineers working at the

Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology The Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology (PINSTECH) is a federally funded research and development laboratory in Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan.1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

. Its establishment came after the Pakistani scientists discovered the heavy amounts of zirconium in the sandy beaches of

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; the facility was established in Kundian in Mianwali District, Punjab, to separate other elements to procure the pure form of zirconium. The nuclear reprocessing and experimental metallurgy of zirconium took place under Pinstech lab in its year early before the technology of nuclear fuel cycle was completely transferred to Kundian Nuclear Fuel Complex. The Kundian Nuclear Fuel Complex has an annual capacity of producing the of natural uranium oxide fuel, which has allowed the

(PAEC) to run the grid operations of the

Karachi Nuclear Power Plant The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (or KANUPP) is a large commercial nuclear power plant located at the Paradise Point in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Officially known as Karachi Nuclear Power Complex, the power generation site is composed of three ...

(KANUPP) without the Canadian assistance at its full capacity. The Kundian Nuclear Fuel Complex manufactures 1500 Beryllium, Zirconium, and other metal oxide nuclear fuel bundles for Karachi Nuclear Power Plant as well as manufacturing the zirconium alloy cladding and reactor core components. According to the Pakistani government statistics, the indigenous nuclear fuel had saved Pakistan

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40 million years, with one PAEC mineralogist noting that: "Pakistan produced the first ton of urifieduranium oxide and

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before it produced the first ton of copper or any other mineral using the local ore and indigenously developed technologies. The Kundian Nuclear Fuel Complex is located near the location of the

Chashma Nuclear Power Plant The Chashma Nuclear Power Plant (or CHASNUPP) is a large commercial nuclear power plant located at Chashma in Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan. Officially known as Chashma Nuclear Power Complex, the nuclear power plant is generating energy for in ...

External links

World Nuclear Organisation

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nuclear Power In Pakistan Nuclear power in Pakistan Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission

History

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