Baghalchur

Baghalchur
Village
Baghalchur is located in Pakistan
Baghalchur
Baghalchur
Location within Pakistan
Coordinates: 30°14′18″N 70°17′10″E / 30.238455°N 70.286207°E / 30.238455; 70.286207
Country Pakistan
ProvincePunjab
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)

Baghalchur (Urdu: بغلچور; officially known as BC-1) is a reservation of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) located in the D.G. Khan District in Punjab, Pakistan. In official Pakistani government accounts, the reservation is known as Baghalchur-1 (BC-1).: 203 

Overview

In 1959, the Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) discovered the uranium deposits but the drilling operations did not commenced until 1963.: 113–114 

In 1975, the Baghalchur reservation was acquired by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and the facility construction was overseen by Bashiruddin Mahmood as its principle project engineer.: 116  Known as BC-1, the milling facility is consisted of an ore storage mill, a ball grinding mill, sulfuric acid and solvent extraction plants, a tunnel drier, and nuclear materials complex.: 114–122  The uranium mining at the Baghalchur started in 1978 but ceased in 2000.

The Baghalchur reservation was relatively unknown until 2006 when the local residents filed a lawsuit for unsafe nuclear waste disposal at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Khan, Feroz (7 November 2012). Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb. Stanford, CA, U.S.: Stanford University Press. p. 552. ISBN 978-0-8047-8480-1. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  2. 1 2 Saeed, Nadeem (28 April 2006). "Villagers' fears of nuclear waste". BBC Urdu Bureau. BBC Pakistan Bureau. Retrieved 12 March 2024.