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By
Muhammad Hassawn Sammy, Senior Engineer, K-2
Muhammad Mubbashir Iqbal, Senior Engineer, DNPE-P
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KANUPP
• To provide sufficient capacity for power generation at the least cost, and to avoid
capacity shortfalls;
• To ensure that all stakeholders are looked after in the process, i.e. a win-win
situation for all; and
Research Reactors
It is used for:
-neutron activation
analysis;
training of operators;
and student
experiments
Directorate of safety, Pakistan Atomic
Pakistan
Energy Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
Commission
Slide 13
Commercial Nuclear Power Plants
Canadian technical support, only without equipment, was resumed in 1991 for safety, through
IAEA and COG.
After operating safely for its design life of 30 years, KANUPP was shut down in 2002 for safety
retrofits and refurbishment for 15 years life extension.
The plant has now been re-licensed -after satisfying the national regulatory requirements. It took
three years to complete the regulatory requirements.
Additional measures for detection and prevention of severe accidents, and mitigation
of their consequences
Construction Permit based on PNRA regulation derived from the latest IAEA
Standards NS-R-1. More than 2000 PNRA queries were settled.
C-2 is based on a Generation II design but many upgrades make it Gen II Plus.