卡拉恰伊湖

卡拉恰伊湖(Lake Karachay)是俄羅斯西部的小型淡水湖，位於車里雅賓斯克州的烏拉爾山脈南部，自1951年用作棄置奧焦爾斯克附近核設施的製造的放射性廢料，1990年測得的放射量是每小時600倫琴，強度足以使人類在1小時內死亡，是全球污染最嚴重的地區。

截至2016年，该湖泊已完全回填，回填材料包括特制混凝土块、石块和泥土。
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外部連結
*[http://www.polar.mephi.ru/ru/conf/2000/6/8.html Lake Karachay - Open-Air Depository for Radioactive Waste]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060628020920/http://www.chrab.chel.su/archive/25-07-00/1/A108539.DOC.html Karachay Lake Will Disappear in Five Years]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717011842/http://nuclearno.ru/text.asp?1421 Radioactive Lake Has Been Practically Annihilated]
*[http://www.american.edu/TED/ural.htm Ural Mountains Radiation Pollution]
*[http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/chelyabinsk-65_nuc.htm Chelyabinsk-65]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060416082819/http://www.nti.org/db/nisprofs/russia/fissmat/pumayak/nucwaste.htm Mayak Radioactive Waste Facilities]
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?om=1&t=k&ie=UTF8&ll=55.677633,60.796173&spn=0.009244,0.01929&z=16 Google Maps Image of the lake]
*[http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=973 "Damn Interesting" article on the lake]