Pakistan has inaugurated the 1.1 GW third unit of the Karachi nuclear power plant, located in south-eastern Pakistan. The US$2.7bn K-3 nuclear reactor is the second unit at the Karachi nuclear plant to use the Chinese-designed Hualong One reactor (HPR1000), exported by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). China also financed the facility’s expansion.
Unit 3, whose construction began in May 2016, was connected to the grid on in March 2022. Construction of unit 2 (K-2) began in 2015. It was connected to the grid in March 2021 and inaugurated by Pakistan in May 2021. The nuclear plant was home to Pakistan's first nuclear power reactor, K-1 (90 MW), a Canadian pressurised heavy water reactor, which shut down in 2021 after 50 years of operation.
At the end of 2020, nuclear represented 4% of Pakistan’s installed capacity with over 1.4 GW. In 2021, it represented 13% of its power generation with more than 19 TWh.
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