Novogornyy, Russia
Lake Karachay
Lake Karachay, 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. Today the lake is completely infilled, acting as "a near-surface permanent and dry nuclear waste storage facility." Its radioactivity is comparable to the Chernobyl disaster.
- City
- Novogornyy
- Country
- Russia
- Category
- Nature
- Suggested visit
- About 150 minutes
Background: Wikipedia