Ozersk

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Lake Karachay

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years

Lake Karachay (Karachai) is a small lake in the southern Ural mountains of Russia that, between 1951 and 1953, was used as a dumping site for the radioactive waste from the nearby Chelyabinsk-65,... »

Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

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