Baghalchur (; officially known as BC-1) is a reservation of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) located in the D.G. Khan District in

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. In official Pakistani government accounts, the reservation is known as Baghalchur-1 (BC-1).

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In 1959, the

Geological Survey of Pakistan Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) is an independent executive scientific agency to explore the natural resources of Pakistan. Main tasks GSP perform are Geological, Geophysical and Geo-chemical Mapping of Pakistan. Target of these mapping are r ...

(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 Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) () is a federally funded independent governmental agency, concerned with research and development of nuclear power, promotion of nuclear science, energy conservation and the peaceful use of nuclear techn ...

(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

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. The Baghalchur reservation was relatively unknown until 2006 when the local residents filed a lawsuit for unsafe nuclear waste disposal at the

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