Most high-tech Chinese nuke technology for Pak

China plans to export a sophisticated simulated nuclear power plant control room to Pakistan to help Islamabad train staff, an official report said on Monday.

The P300 full-scale simulated control room is the biggest and most high-tech China has ever developed and the first it has sent overseas, the Xinhua news agency said.

The development is shocking considering that only last year, China undertook not to ship nuclear technology to other countries's facilities that are not subject to international inspections.

The United States has raised concern that China in the past may have supplied Pakistan with technology that could be used for making nuclear weapons.

Xinhua said the equipment was recently checked and approved by Chinese and foreign experts in Shanghai. It gave no details on the experts or the checks they had performed.

Shen Zengyao, director of an atomic engineering institute in Shanghai that developed the equipment, said the control room was specifically designed to train nuclear power plant operators, Xinhua added.

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