Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission in service of the nation

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), over the years, has built an extensive infrastructure for contributing to the economic uplift of the country. Its activities span an extremely wide spectrum: from nuclear power generation to minerals development, from developing high yield disease resistant crops to the treatment of cancer, design and fabrication of industrial plants/equipment to human resource development.
NUCLEAR ENERGY:
-- Nuclear power is pollution free, cost competitive and safe. It is independent of seasonal effects and provides security of electricity supply. Owing to these unique characteristics, it augurs well for sustainable development. PAEC is successfully operating two nuclear power plants with a third one upcoming, has 33 years of safe operating experience at its credit and plans to build more nuclear power plants in the coming years to contribute to the energy requirements of the country.
MINERALS DEVELOPMENT:
-- Prospection, exploration and processing of minerals for local industry, and provision of expert geo-technical services in these areas.
-- Indigenous development of nuclear fuel and materials for local nuclear power plants.
AGRICULTURE SECTOR:
--Development of 50 new high yield pest resistant crop varieties resulting in manifold increase in production and fetching more than Rs 6000 million additional annual income to the farmers.
-- Of the total cultivated area in the country, PAEC crop varieties are sown on 60% area in Sindh, 50% in NWFP and 20% of sown area in Punjab.
-- Manufacture of non-toxic, non-pollutant bio-fertiliser.
-- Reclamation of Saline Land through technology evolved by PAEC. Expert services in this field are being provided to 10 IAEA member countries.
-- A Laser land Leveller has indigenously been developed which drastically reduces the cost of land levelling resulting in reduced requirement of irrigation water to the crops.
CANCER TREATMENT CENTRES:
-- PAEC is running 13 state-of-the-art medical centres all over the country which are providing diagnostic and treatment services for cancer related diseases to over 3,50,000 patients annually. Nine more such centres will be added shortly.
SUPPORT TO THE INDUSTRY:
-- PAEC is assisting the industry in its growth and competitive capability by providing technical services.
-- Offers design and fabrication services for the manufacture of large-scale mechanical systems, complete plants and modules.
-- Offers training/certification in welding techniques and site services for manufacturing & installation of plants.
-- Offers training/certification in Non-Destructive Testing Techniques along with services for testing of manufactured equipment and in-service inspection of plants.
INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL:
-- PAEC undertakes design and installation of Instrumentation & Control Systems for Petrochemical plants and general industry.
-- Various large-scale industries are being provided services in this area.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT:
-- Solving local industrial problems through Research & Development.
-- Contributing to basic research in collaboration with world scientific bodies.
-- Based upon the excellence of its research labs. and human resource quality, PINSTECH, a research institute of PAEC has been declared Regional Resource Centre of IAEA.
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT:
-- Offers Masters and Ph.D. degree programmes in System Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Medicine, Information Technology, Medical Physics, Nuclear Power Engineering, Materials Engineering and Process Engineering at its own educational institutions like Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Computer Training Centre (CTC) and KANUPP Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering (KINPOE).