Lake Karatchai, in Ural, has accumulated for 64 years radioactive waste from the Soviet military nuclear programme, becoming the most polluted place on Earth with contamination exceeding that of Chernobyl. Exposed to the elements in 1968, its radioactive sediments affected 500,000 people before being definitively sealed under tons of concrete in 2015. More
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Lake Karatchai, in Ural, has accumulated for 64 years radioactive waste from the Soviet military nuclear programme, becoming the most polluted place on Earth with contamination exceeding that of Chernobyl. Exposed to the elements in 1968, its radioactive sediments affected 500,000 people before being definitively sealed under tons of concrete in 2015. More