China helps Pakistan build nuclear power plants   (Reuters)  Updated: 2006-09-01 15:58  
BEIJING - China hopes to sign a deal in November to supply reactors to 
Pakistan for six new nuclear power plants, the Xinhua News Agency said Friday. 
 The plants would be built within 10 years, Xinhua said, citing an 
unidentified Pakistani official. It didn't give a price for the deal. 
 China and Pakistan are close allies. 
 The planned power plants each would have a capacity of 300 megawatts, 
according to Xinhua. 
 China helped Pakistan construct a 300-megawatt nuclear power station at 
Chashma in Punjab province in 1999. A second facility is under construction at 
the same site.   
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