Baghalchur
Overview
In 1959, the Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) discovered the uranium deposits but the drilling operations did not commenced until 1963.
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. 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. 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
- ^ 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.
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