China to build 1GW Pakistani nuclear plant

CNNC conducted talks to build a one-gigawatt nuclear power plant in Pakistan.

Qiu Jiangang, vice president of the state-run China National Nuclear Corporation, which has already built Pakistan's main nuclear facility at Chashma in Punjab province, said his company was in talks to set up another giant nuclear plant in Pakistan.

"Both sides are in discussions over the CNNC exporting a one-gigawatt nuclear plant to Pakistan," said Qiu Jiangang, according to the Wall Street Journal.

China's foreign ministry says the Sino-Pak civilian nuclear cooperation is for peaceful purposes and that China has kept the International Atomic Energy Agency informed about it.

It is part of China’s US $117.6 billion expansion in nuclear power generation over the next decades.
The new 1 gigawatt plant, which would be Pakistan's fifth and more than three times powerful than the existing ones is being proposed to be built without China notifying either the IAEA or the Nuclear Suppliers Group.