Karachay Lake, located in the southwestern Chelyabinsk region of eastern Russia and close to the border with Kazakhstan, “The most dangerous pond in the worldIt is known as “.

So this more What makes it so risky and what effects does Karaçay’s presence have on us? Let’s take a closer look at that.

Karachay is a small lake where the radioactive waste from the Mayak Plutonium Plant (Chelyabinsk-65), one of the largest nuclear weapons facilities in the Soviet Union, was discharged between 1951 and 1953.

This lake is completely filled with concrete to keep the radioactive sediment off the shore and acts as a permanent and dry repository for nuclear waste on the surface. Researchers also called this lake because it contains many hazardous substances. the dirtiest place on earth accepts as.

The Russian government ignored the Mayak plutonium plant until the 1990s, and various types of waste continued to be dumped into the lake.

However, the consequences of this ignorance were serious and when Mayak’s presence was officially recognized, cases of cancer at 21%, birth defects at 25% and leukemia at 41% appeared to occur.

Even the Techa River, which supplies nearby villages with water, became so polluted as a result 65% of the local population is caused by radiation He suffered from several serious illnesses.

Researchers say that Karaçay, which means “black water” or “black stream” in many Northwestern Turkic languages, is not only an extremely dangerous area, but also more polluted than Chernobyl.

Lake Kacaray, also known as Reservoir 9 or V-9 water tank,“One of the World’s Deadliest Bodies of Water” is considered one. The water is so polluted and dangerous that it is dangerous to walk around the lake let alone enter it.

Karachay, A lethal dose of 600 X-rays transmits. This is 200,000 times higher than normal radiation levels, and even 30 minutes in the area is enough to kill a person.

This deadly lake began to dry up in the 1960s, and a drought combined with strong winds in 1968 somewhat removed the radioactive effects from the region.

Nearly half a million people Unknowingly, he was exposed to this radiation, and only 180 thousand people could be evacuated from the region.

As a result, in the 1990s, Karaçay, in order to prevent the shifting of the sediments in it, about The cavity was filled with 10,000 concrete blocks. and this project gained momentum in 2015.

While it is not yet known whether the region has been cleaned up and completely lost the effects of these harmful wastes; It is feared that the radiation could affect the Tetscha River and then the Atlantic Ocean.

Also includes Lake Karaçay, neighboring towns and factories. completely cut off from the outside world. According to the researchers, it is much safer to leave the lake where it is, rather than try to move the debris somewhere. And the only legal way in is through a checkpoint.