Meet the lake so polluted that spending an hour there would kill you

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Meet the lake so polluted that spending an hour there would kill you

Welcome to beautiful Lake Karachay, a Russian lake so tainted by nearby nuclear facilities that it’s considered the most polluted place on the planet . In 1990, just standing on the shore for an hour would give you a radiation dose of 600 roentgen , more than enough to kill you. On the plus side, lakefront property is probably really, really cheap. You can’t really blame Lake Karachay for acting up — it comes from a really rough area. The lake is located within the Mayak Production Association, one of the largest — and leakiest — nuclear facilities in Russia. The Russian government kept Mayak entirely secret until 1990, and it spent that period of invisibility mainly having nuclear meltdowns and dumping waste into the river. By the time Mayak’s existence was officially acknowledged, there had been a 21 percent increase in cancer incidence, a 25 percent increase in birth de...

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@sonicviz » 09 Oct '12, 1pm
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An hour on this lakeshore will kill you: [link]
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@grist » 03 Oct '12, 11pm
Introducing the most polluted place on the planet, Lake Karachay: [link] Just don't vacation there.
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Russia's Lake Karachay is so polluted that an hour on its shore used to be be enough to kill a person: [link]
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The most polluted place on earth causes what doctors call "special disease." Spoiler alert: it's radiation sickness. [link]
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@sageblessing » 03 Oct '12, 5pm
We thought Pripyat, Ukraine (evacuated town near Chernobyl) was the only bad spot in former USSR with radiation - YIKES [link]
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