The world-wide energy use will register 54 percent increase from current level by 2025, primarily driven by developing Asia. The electricity use would be nearly doubled by that time with slight increase in nuclear power use in coming days, but predictable fall by 2025, however, natural gas is expected to remain an important supply source, said Akira Omoto, director, Nuclear Power Division, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), here at a workshop on Monday.
The workshop on "IAEA National Workshop on Effective Outage Management", organised jointly by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and the IAEA.
Akira Omoto, in his presentation on 'Nuclear Power - current, future prospect and the Agency's activities', said the credible longer-term demand for energy and its supply situation foresees a growing role of nuclear power.
On IAEA's role, he said it supports the member states in establishing, maintaining and strengthening nuclear power and science, fuel cycle and waste management with due regard to safety, security and non-proliferation. It catalyses the innovations for sustainable growth and assures continuity and further development of nuclear knowledge, capacity building and competence.
"The IAEA is assisting the member states for their peaceful use of nuclear power as Article-III of Statute of the IAEA authorises it to encourage and assist research on development and practical applications of atomic energy for peaceful uses throughout the world", he added.
Akira Omoto said that a new system is in pipeline to integrate all elements of managing nuclear facilities and activities to ensure that inter-related economic health, quality, and environmental matters are not considered separately to safety matters.
He gave a detailed overview of the expansion in nuclear power sector world-wide and various initiatives of the IAEA for safety standards. The organisation will publish Draft Safety Requirement next year with a number of other steps to be taken in next couple of years.
Karachi Nuclear Power Complex (KNPC) General Manager Qamarullah Hoda said that as per requirement of the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA), some safety systems of the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (Kanupp) are being upgraded. "The safety up-gradations are planned for Kanupp, including the installation of additional redundancy in emergency coolant injection system of coolant injection in case of LOCA," he said, adding that with these changes, the nuclear power plant of 60s would achieve all the modern requirements of a CANDU plant.
On effective outage, he said that importance of effective outage management and its optimisation could not be overemphasised. A plant outage can be very expensive and time consuming in any organisation, mainly due to the loss of production and immense expense, he added.
"An ill-planned outage cannot only cost valuable days and millions of dollars in cost overruns, but may also result in unsafe situations, he said, adding that planning is most vital stage of an outage process and a thorough plan is absolutely necessary for a trouble-free outage.
He said that workshop is a part of IAEA Regional Asia Technical Co-operation Project management changes for the competitive nuclear performance.
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