The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant, widely known as KANUPP-I, is a commercial nuclear power plant, located at Karachi, Sindh Province of Pakistan. In terms of Pakistan Nuclear industry, KANUPP is country's first commercially operated nuclear power plant, and also holds a distinction of being the first nuclear power plant in the Muslim world to be constructed. With the establishment and inauguration of this reactor, Pakistan became first nuclear power country in the Muslim world in 1972. The KANUPP-I is a single unit CANDU-type PHWR reactor with a total gross capacity of 137MWe. The plant is situated at the Paradise Point on the arid Arabian Sea coast, about 15 miles to the west of Karachi.
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