Lake Karachay: The USSR’s Deadly Nuclear Lake

USSR. Nuclear energy. Sigh. → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw?sub_confirmation=1 Our sister channels: Biographics - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ TopTenz - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ Source/Further reading: New Scientist, Russia’s Toxic Shocker: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15621112-400-russias-toxic-shocker-bomb-factories-created-the-most-radioactive-place-on-earth/ Nuclear Engineering Magazine on the clean-up: https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-mayak-continues-clean-up-of-lake-karachai-5684170 Nuclear Threat Initiative overview: https://www.nti.org/learn/facilities/894/ Bellona environment group on the clean-up: https://bellona.org/news/russian-human-rights-issues/russian-ngo-law/2015-11-environmentalists-skeptical-about-russian-plans-to-seal-off-radioactive-lake Natural Resources Defense Council overview: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.eg.18.110193.002451 Bellona, Kyshtym disaster: https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2017-10-the-worst-nuclear-disaster-youve-never-heard-of-celebrates-its-60th-birthday Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/event/Kyshtym-disaster City 40 general overview: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/20/graveyard-earth-inside-city-40-ozersk-russia-deadly-secret-nuclear Mayak villagers’ tragedy: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-mayak-villagers-living-in-shadow-nuclear-tragedy/28921944.html 2016 documentary on City 40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piX13cLw32w Interview with an American scientist who worked there: https://medicine.utah.edu/radiology/news/2018/02/scott-miller-radiobiology.php First Lightning: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-explode-atomic-bomb Bomb yield comparisons: https://graphics.reuters.com/LEBANON-SECURITY/BLAST/yzdpxnmqbpx/