Karachi nuclear power plant

Karachi nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Karachi nuclear power plant is the 1st largest of 2 operating nuclear sites in Pakistan, holding 62% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 75th of 172 worldwide.

Its operating units started up between 2021 and 2022; the median unit is 4.5 years old, younger than the median of 9.5 in Pakistan.

The 3 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 5.2 to 5.8 years (median 5.6) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 2020s is 7.7 years.

No other nuclear site with an exact position in this dataset lies within 300 km.

The current net rating of Unit 3 differs from its design net capacity by +0.3% (1,014 MW at design, 1,017 MW now).

Build time by unit

How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.