Islamabad: Three leading physicists have raised key questions about the safety, design and cost of Pakistan's largest nuclear power plant being built with Chinese assistance in the port city of Karachi.
The Karachi complex will have two nuclear reactors with a production capacity of 2,200 MW.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated the project, estimated to cost USD 9.6 billion and scheduled to be completed in six years, late last month.
In an article published in the influential Dawn daily today, experts Pervez Hoodbhoy, A H Nayyar and Zia Mian said the project would use a reactor being developed by a Chinese state-run firm that currently exists only on paper.
“This will be by far the largest nuclear construction project ever in Pakistan. It is not too late to ask a few basic questions so that people, especially those living in Karachi, know what they may be letting themselves in for,” they wrote.
