15 % Damage to Pakistani Nuclear Facilities in Quake
After the earthquake, people inside and out of Pakistan have raised their concern about the safety of nuclear assets of Pakistan, especially Kahuta Nuclear Facility which was just 100km away from the quake’s epicentre.
A report has been published recently in NewsInsight that states that around 15% of Pakistan’s nuclear facilities have been damaged by the earthquake:
There is fifteen to twenty per cent damage to Pakistani nuclear facilities and storage sites in the Northern Areas, especially in Skardu and Chitral, and the local population faces the risk of contamination, but a curfew has been imposed, and they are being actively prevented by the authorities from leaving the area. Because of the serious damage to the nuclear facilities in the Northern Areas, the Pakistan government has turned away international relief teams, prevented Indian Army relief work and Indian Air Force supply drops, and withdrawn the consent for Israeli assistance, fearing that Mossad agents would be infiltrated who would destroy the atomic establishments.
While Western sources did not say that reactors had been damaged in the 8 October earthquake, they confirmed that missile silos had developed cracks, and storage facilities had taken a hit, and since the epicentre is likely to be seismically active for another two years, they expressed fear of further collapse of the nuclear establishments. To prevent leak of this massive nuclear destruction, Pakistan both bottled up the local population by imposing curfew, and did not permit international inspection of the disaster-hit areas.
Source: South Asia Quake Help
November 23rd, 2005 at 8:45 am
Kahuta is no longer a proper nuclear facility since 1998.
This plant is assembling and manufacturing missiles, night vision devices and computer related defence items.
So sleep happily and do not raise false alarms like this.
Whatever, Pakistan have in terms of nuclear arsenal, that is kept quite safe and guarded.