Pakistan earmarks Rs 12.6 billion for atomic energy

By IANS

Islamabad : The Pakistan government has earmarked Rs 12.6 billion for atomic energy development in the 2007-08 federal budget.


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This is a 29.8 per cent increase over the allocation of Rs 9.7 billion in the outgoing year, reported Pakistani daily, Dawn Sunday.

According to the budget documents, the money will be spent on research and development and general public services.

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anwar Ali had recently said that the government had assigned the commission the task of generating 8,800MW nuclear power by 2030.

The estimated capacity of each plant would be 1000MW, he said, adding that the joint maintenance and operations of such plants would be easy and economical.

He said that six sites were being considered in various parts of the country to set up the plants and the PAEC was in contact with multiple sources for negotiations to execute the programme.

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