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| Fire guts Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission premises |
| 2006-05-16 |
| A fire broke out late on Monday in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) premises, extinguished by the fire brigades departments of several districts after nine hours, sources said. Authorities are of the view that a short circuit could have spread the fire. However, they have yet to identify the real cause. More than 20 vehicles of the fire brigade departments of Dera Ghazi Khan, Multan, Rajanpur, Layyah, Muzaffargarh, and the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited managed to extinguish the fire after a nine-hour struggle. Authorities also closed down the DG Khan-Quetta highway and an emergency was declared in the area. No one was allowed to enter or come near the PAEC premises, except for the fire brigade vehicles. The authorities barred even the Punjab Police from taking part in the rescue operation with the area around the PAEC office and plant on fire. Sources said that losses from the fire were rumoured to be in millions but officials were yet to give a figure. staff report |
| Posted by:john |
| #5 Of course it could be the same folks who started the fires during the Clinton period that covered up missing hard drives at our nuke R&D site. (its a good rumor to start even if it is bs..) |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-05-16 23:36 |
| #4 Damn! Beat me to it, Barbara. |
| Posted by: Brett 2006-05-16 22:31 |
#3 A fire broke out late on Monday in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) premises, extinguished by the fire brigades departments of several districts after nine hours, sources said.And they never will. Halliburton Remote Firestarter Division ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-16 21:19 |
| #2 "Munir Khan was the architect of both the uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing programmes in Pakistan. The PAEC not only started the Uranium enrichment programme as Project-706 at Kahuta in 1974 under Munir's directions, but also the indigenous plutonium programme after France backed out of the reprocessing contract in 1978 and Munir Khan successfully completed the pilot reprocessing plant as New Labs at the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH) by 1981 which gave Pakistan the capability to produce enough plutonium for at least one nuclear weapon a year. 6. The PAEC under Munir started the indigenous Plutonium production reactor at KHUSHAB in 1985 which has now been commissioned and is the centre piece of Pakistan's plutonium programme. Plutonium is used to develop advanced compact warheads and Khushab reactor will provide Pakistan with tritium to increase the yield of its nuclear weapons. 7. It was under Munir Khan that work was begun on the nuclear weapons design and development in a meeting called by him in March 1974 and this task was assigned to the Directorate of Technical Development (DTD) of the PAEC. 8. The PAEC under Munir Khan successfully conducted the first "cold tests" of nuclear weapons on 11th March 1983. 9. The Chaghi tunnels for nuclear test explosions were built and completed by 1980 by PAEC under Munir Ahmad Khan. " |
| Posted by: john 2006-05-16 21:14 |
| #1 "Until the nuclear explosions in 1998, Khan had sole claim over the making of the bomb, and to the Pakistani public, the name of Khan and KRL stood for Pakistan's nuclear program. After the explosions, however, the media reported an ugly battle, as both groups of scientists made their bid to appear as the real bomb makers. This bizarre situation went to such an extreme that the government of Nawaz Sharif had to intervene to silence the scientists and clarify the contributions of the two organizations: Uranium had been enriched by KRL; other processes, up to the explosions, were handled by PAEC." |
| Posted by: john 2006-05-16 21:11 |