operating two years earlier (Mark Hibbs, 30 Week, June 15, 2000). “After Years, PAEC Fulfills Munir Khan’s Plutonium Ambition,” Nucleonics A 2001 Department of Defense report states that the reactor produce but does not say whether it was operating (U.S. “will plutonium,” Department of Defense, Proliferation: Threat and Response, January 2001, p. 27). 25 Inventory of Weapon-Grade David Albright, “Pakistan’s Uranium and Weapon-Grade Plutonium Dedicated to Nuclear Institute for Science and International Security, October 19, 2015; Weapons,” David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, Reactors Operational While New Institute for Science and “Khushab Construction Progresses,” refers to the process of separating plutonium from “Reprocessing” International Security, February 29, 2016. 26 spent nuclear fuel. 27 According to a 1983 State Department document, the New Laboratories facility was capable of extracting small Pakistan also appears to be (continued...) Nuclear Weapons Congressional Research Service 5 began operating.28 Pakistan’s constructing a second reprocessing plant at PINSTECH29 and may be completing a reprocessing plant located at Chasma.30
operating two years earlier (Mark Hibbs, “After 30 Years, PAEC Fulfills Munir Khan’s Plutonium Ambition,” Nucleonics Week, June 15, 2000). A 2001 Department of Defense report states that the reactor “will produce plutonium,” but does not say whether it was operating (U.S. Department of Defense, Proliferation: Threat and Response, January 2001, p. 27). 25 David Albright, “Pakistan’s Inventory of Weapon-Grade Uranium and Weapon-Grade Plutonium Dedicated to Nuclear Weapons,” Institute for Science and International Security, October 19, 2015; David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, “Khushab Reactors Operational While New Construction Progresses,” Institute for Science and International Security, February 29, 2016. 26 “Reprocessing” refers to the process of separating plutonium from spent nuclear fuel. 27 According to a 1983 State Department document, the New Laboratories facility was capable of extracting small (continued...) Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Congressional Research Service 5 began operating.28 Pakistan also appears to be constructing a second reprocessing plant at PINSTECH29 and may be completing a reprocessing plant located at Chasma.30
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