Khan Research Laboratories
Khan Research Laboratories is a PAK company active in the nuclear fuel chain as enrichment.
Pakistan's enrichment establishment, running Kahuta since 1984 and a second site at Gadwal, both outside safeguards. It is also the origin of the A. Q. Khan network, which sold centrifuge designs and components to Libya, Iran and North Korea, the largest proliferation of enrichment technology on record.
| Headquarters | Kahuta, Pakistan |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1976 |
| Ownership | state |
| Roles in the chain | enrichment |
Position in the chain
Downstream
Enriched uranium from this company feeds fuel fabrication, and from there 373 operating reactors across these types. Heavy water reactors are absent because they run on natural uranium and skip enrichment entirely.
| Reactor type | Operating units |
|---|---|
| Pressurised water reactor | 309 |
| Boiling water reactor | 45 |
| Gas-cooled reactor | 9 |
| Light water graphite reactor | 7 |
| Fast reactor | 2 |
| High-temperature gas reactor | 1 |
Facilities
| Facility | Stage | Country | Capacity / output | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kahuta (Khan Research Laboratories) | enrichment | PAK | not disclosed | operating |
| Gadwal | enrichment | PAK | not disclosed | operating |
Khan Research Laboratories in context
Khan Research Laboratories has 2 facilities on record in 1 country (Pakistan): 2 operating.
How these are worked out: shares and ranks use the world totals cited in the table, and only named companies are ranked (unnamed or country-level entries in a source are not). A facility with no stated capacity is counted as a facility but adds nothing to a capacity figure. Vendor figures count operating units where this company is the recorded reactor vendor; ages count from the start-up year on record, and build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the age and build-times pages.
Sources
- Khan Research Laboratories, company source
- Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release , CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06
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