Baghalchur

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]}

Baghalchur
Village
Baghalchur
Coordinates: 30.238455°N 70.286207°E / 30.238455; 70.286207
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)

Overview

Main article: Uranium mining

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]

See also

• Nuclear waste
• Fuel extraction in Pakistan

• Energy portal
• Pakistan portal