Memento awarded to JL Gray from Karachi Nuclear Power Plant

Artifact Number:

2018-087

Description

A commemorative metal and wooden box presented to JL Gray, then AECL President, by the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) – a joint Canada-Pakistan effort. The box, measuring 22 cm long by 14 cm wide by 6.5 cm high, shows a depiction of the nuclear power plant on its top and has the engraving “137 MWe Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (1971)” on the lower part of the box top. The lower photos show the top, and inside views of the box as well as the front and side views. It is not known when the presentation took place and what the composition of the metal used is.

Details

Keywords:

kanupp reactor; candu type reactor; pwhr reactor

Date:

1971

References:

The following was extracted from Nuclear Threat Initiative. www.nti.org/learn/facilities/111/ “The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) is a 137 MWe Canadian Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) pressurized water reactor (PWHR) that is fueled by natural uranium. KANUPP was Pakistan’s first nuclear power plant. After a May 1965 agreement between Canada and Pakistan, Canadian General Electric began construction of the reactor in September 1965, and the plant went into commercial operation in 1972. Initially, Canada supplied Pakistan with heavy water and natural uranium fuel for KANUPP. Following India’s 1974 nuclear test and Pakistan’s subsequent refusal to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Canada halted its supply of heavy water and fuel in 1976. As a result, Pakistan has been indigenously fabricating fuel since 1980.”