The facility which was made completely inaccessible to foreigners for 45 years had allegedly dumped large volumes of radioactive waste in the lake since 1951. The lake karachay is located within the limits of the mayak production association one of russia s largest nuclear facilities. Russia has denied that any leaks have occurred at two of its nuclear power plants after higher than usual radiation was detected over norway sweden and finland in the first half of june.
Artificial and natural nuclear and hostile to all advanced forms of life they. The diversity of lakes located in russia and cis countries can amaze anyone. Can a lake serve as a salt reserve.
As at the trinity site of the first united states nuclear weapon test in alamogordo new mexico the exposed rock and sand was melted into a glassy. Lake chagan or lake balapan kazakhstan a lake created by the chagan nuclear test roughly 10 000 000 m 3 8 100 acre ft in size is still radioactive and has been called the atomic lake. карача й sometimes spelled karachai or karachaj was a small lake in the southern ural mountains in central russia starting in 1951 the soviet union used karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from mayak the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility located near the town of ozyorsk then called chelyabinsk 40.
