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Worlds most polluted Lake.

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 Karachay
Fish from Lake Karachay
 and its surrounding habitats are almost   completely uninhabited. Of the fish and   other aquatic species that survive there, all are considered to carry high levels of lethal radiation.      


Fact: Standing on the shore of Russia's Lake Karachay for an hour would give you 600 roentgens of radiation.
Meaning of roentgens is: 
the international unit of x-radiation or gamma radiation equal to the amount of radiation that produces in one cubic centimeter of dry air at 0°C and standard atmospheric pressure ionization of either sign equal to one electrostatic unit of charge.

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By: A. Jahnavi Reddy 
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