29 Most Toxic Places On Earth

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Lake Karachay, Russia

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Lake Karachay is a small body of water located in the southern Ural Mountains in eastern Russia. Decades ago, the Soviet Union used the lake as a dumping site for radioactive waste from the Mayak Production Association, a nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility. Today, Lake Karachay is an infill mainly used as a nuclear waste storage facility. Affected by a string of disasters and accidents that caused radioactive contamination in surrounding areas, Lake Karachay is considered the most polluted expanse in the world from a radiological point of view. The lake bed’s sediments are composed almost completely of high-level radioactive waste deposits. The radiation in the region is at an extremely high level that simply standing on the shore of the lake just for an hour would expose a human to a lethal dose of radiation.