Khushab Tritium Production Facility

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A backgrounder

Nuclear Threat Initiative

OTHER NAME: N/A

LOCATION: Khushab District, Punjab; Approximately 200km SW of Islamabad

SUBORDINATE TO: Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)

SIZE: Approximately 1km² with a number of buildings

FACILITY STATUS: Operational

Pakistan reportedly produces tritium at the Khushab complex, near the Khushab-1 and Khushab-2 plutonium production reactors. Between 1985 and 1987, two German firms – Nuleartechnik GmbH (Neue Technologies GmbH) and Physikalisch-Technische Beratung – provided Pakistan with a tritium purification and production facility, tritium precursor materials, and 0.8g of pure tritium. Tritium can be used to boost the explosive yield of nuclear weapons.

See also

Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission