[1] The plant is owned by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), which manufactures and, henceforth, supplies the nuclear fuel bundles and reactor cores to the nation's commercial nuclear power plant.
It has an annual capacity of producing 24 megatonnes (2.4×1010 kg) of natural uranium oxide fuel as well as zirconium alloy cladding and reactor core components.
[3] Its establishment came after the Pakistani scientists discovered the heavy amounts of zirconium in the sandy beaches of Balochistan; the facility was established in Kundian in Mianwali District, Punjab, to separate other elements to procure the pure form of zirconium.
[2] The Kundian Nuclear Fuel Complex has an annual capacity of producing the 24 megatonnes (2.4×1010 kg) of natural uranium oxide fuel, which has allowed the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) to run the grid operations of the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) without the Canadian assistance at its full capacity.
: 115 According to the Pakistani government statistics, the indigenous nuclear fuel had saved Pakistan US$ 40 million years, with one PAEC mineralogist noting that: "Pakistan produced the first ton of [purified] uranium oxide and metal before it produced the first ton of copper or any other mineral using the local ore and indigenously developed technologies.