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[ There is no independent confirmation, there will be none other than the word of the Pakistan state re the status of Nuclear facilities in wake of the quake ] Home > News > World News Posted on 11 Oct 2005 # IANS PAKISTAN SAYS ALL NUKE FACILITIES SAFE Islamabad: Pakistan said Tuesday its nuclear warheads and installations were safe after the devastating earthquake that has caused over 21,000 deaths. "There is no danger to our nuclear installations and weapons from the earthquake," military spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan told reporters here Tuesday. "They are fully safe," said Sultan, adding he was not immediately able to say up to what intensity the Pakistani nuclear facilities could withstand earthquakes and aftershocks. Saturday's quake caused massive structural damage in the North West Frontier Province and Pakistani Kashmir, wiping out whole villages and laying waste to some 70 percent of Muzaffarabad city. Pervez Hoodbhoy, professor of physics at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University, said the quake posed more danger to nuclear power plants than nuclear weapons. Pakistan's main uranium enrichment facility at Kahuta near Islamabad is located about 70 km southeast of Kashmir. "It will not be a military installation, the danger could be at Chashma," Hoodbhoy, also an activist against nuclear weapons, told a TV news channel. He was referring to the pressurised water reactor-type nuclear power plant at Chashma. "Chashma is in a seismic zone and if an earthquake is centred close to it (the power plant) there could be loss of radioactive material and a Chernobyl-like situation," Hoodbhoy said. _________________________________ SOUTH ASIANS AGAINST NUKES (SAAN): An informal information platform for activists and scholars concerned about Nuclearisation in South Asia South Asians Against Nukes Mailing List: archives are available @ two locations May 1998 - March 2002: <groups.yahoo.com/group/sap/messages/1> Feb. 2001 - to date: <groups.yahoo.com/group/SAAN_/messages/1> To subscribe send a blank message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> South Asians Against Nukes Website: www.s-asians-against-nukes.org SOUTH ASIANS AGAINST NUKES (SAAN): An informal information platform for activists and scholars concerned about the dangers of Nuclearisation in South Asia SAAN Website: http://www.s-asians-against-nukes.org SAAN Mailing List: To subscribe send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAAN Mailing List Archive : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAAN_/ ________________________________ DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed in materials carried in the posts do not necessarily reflect the views of SAAN compilers. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAAN_/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
