Pakistan’s Main Nuclear Sites

  • A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) (Kahuta) – nuclear weapon research and development; uranium enrichment
  • Atomic Energy Minerals Center (Lahore) – uranium and nuclear mineral resource development; runs ore pilot reprocessing plant; production of reactor fuel bundles
  • Chagai Hills nuclear test site
  • Chashma Nuclear Power Reactor (Chashma) – 300 megawatt power reactor
  • Dera Ghazi Khan – uranium milling and conversion
  • Karachi Nuclear Power Reactor (Kanupp) (Karachi)
  • Khushab research reactor and heavy water production plant (Khushab)
  • Multan heavy water production plant (Multan)
  • New Labs plutonium reprocessing plant (Rawalpindi)
  • Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) (Islamabad) – nuclear weapon research
  • Pakistan Institute for Science and Technology (PINSTECH) (Islamabad) – research reactors used for tritium production research
  • Sargodha airbase (Sargodha) – possible nuclear weapon storage site
  • Sihala – possible site of pilot-scale uranium enrichment centrifuge plant
  • Tumman Leghani – reported new uranium mine (southern Punjab)