Khushab Nuclear Complex

Pakistan / Punjab / Sahiwal /
 power plant, nuclear research centre
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This area contains Pakistan's main nuclear weapons manufacturing plants.
The Khushab Nuclear reactor is a 50 MW Uranium reactor from which plutonium is extracted.
There is a heavy water extraction plant, and two more reactors are being constructed.
India and Israel had planned to bomb this facility in the mid 80s.
2008 China vows to help Pakistan in civil nuclear technology by building and helping in the Khusab Nuclear Programme providing technology to Pakistan for better maintenance of civil nuclear plants.
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Coordinates:   32°0'9"N   72°11'43"E
This article was last modified 9 years ago