China is building two untested nuclear reactors on Pakistan's coast

July 07, 2015 13:19

Pakistan's largest city and financial hub has given China a green light to build two nuclear power stations on a beach about 15 miles from downtown, raising public alarm over both the location -- the coastline is vulnerable to tsunamis -- and the fact that the nuclear reactors are new and untested.

Karachi approved the plan in late June when the city's environmental agency deemed, "after careful review,' that the project was safe. Yet the impact assessment on the reactor site, at a popular beach known as Paradise Point, remains secret. Read more

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