Baghalchur | |
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Village | |
Baghalchur | |
| Coordinates: 30°14′18″N 70°17′10″E / 30.238455°N 70.286207°E / 30.238455; 70.286207 | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province | Punjab |
| Time zone | UTC+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 1
Overview
In 1959, the Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) discovered the uranium deposits but the drilling operations did not commenced until 1963.: 113–114 1
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 1 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 1 The uranium mining at the Baghalchur started in 1978 but ceased in 2000.2
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.2
References
References
- 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.
- Saeed, Nadeem (28 April 2006). "Villagers' fears of nuclear waste". BBC Urdu Bureau. BBC Pakistan Bureau. Retrieved 12 March 2024.