Lake Karachay
Lake Karachay (Russian: Карача́й), 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 (then called Chelyabinsk-40). Today the lake is completely infilled, acting as "a near-surface permanent and dry nuclear waste storage facility."
| Lake Karachay | |
|---|---|
| Карача́й (Russian) | |
Lake Karachay | |
| Coordinates | 55°40′42″N 60°47′59″E |
| Type | Reservoir |
| Basin countries | Russia |
| Settlements | Ozyorsk |
The radioactivity of the lake is comparable to the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear accident of all time.
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