🌊 Lake Karachay

Russia · Europe · 251 m · 55.68°N, 60.80°E

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.

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Quick facts

Country	Russia
Continent / region	Europe
Surface elevation	251 m above sea level
Coordinates (approx.)	55.68°N, 60.80°E · view on map

Lake Karachay sits at 251 m in Russia, in Europe. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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