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Lake Karachay (Карача́й), sometimes spelled Karachai or Karachaj, was a small lake in the southern Ural Mountains in central Russia.[1]

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  1. 34 relations: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Becquerel, Caesium-137, Chernobyl disaster, Church Rock uranium mill spill, Curie (unit), Hanford Site, High-level waste, Karachays, Kipchak languages, Kyshtym disaster, Lavrentiy Beria, Mayak, NASA WorldWind, Natural Resources Defense Council, NKVD, Norilsk, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Plutonium, Pollution, Pure Earth, Radioactive waste, Reservoir, Roentgen (unit), Russia, Sievert, Soviet atomic bomb project, Soviet Union, Stalinism, Strontium-90, Tatar language, Techa, Ural Mountains, Worldwatch Institute.

  2. Former lakes of Asia
  3. Lakes of Chelyabinsk Oblast
  4. Radioactively contaminated areas
  5. Ural Mountains

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Becquerel

The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI).

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Caesium-137

Caesium-137, cesium-137 (US), or radiocaesium, is a radioactive isotope of caesium that is formed as one of the more common fission products by the nuclear fission of uranium-235 and other fissionable isotopes in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

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Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union.

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Church Rock uranium mill spill

The Church Rock uranium mill spill occurred in the U.S. state of New Mexico on July 16, 1979, when United Nuclear Corporation's tailings disposal pond at its uranium mill in Church Rock breached its dam. Lake Karachay and Church Rock uranium mill spill are Radioactively contaminated areas.

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Curie (unit)

The curie (symbol Ci) is a non-SI unit of radioactivity originally defined in 1910.

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Hanford Site

The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in Benton County in the U.S. state of Washington. Lake Karachay and Hanford Site are Radioactively contaminated areas.

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High-level waste

High-level waste (HLW) is a type of nuclear waste created by the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.

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Karachays

The Karachays or Karachai (Qaraçaylıla or таулула, tawlula, 'Mountaineers') are an indigenous North Caucasian-Turkic ethnic group native to the North Caucasus.

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Kipchak languages

The Kipchak languages (also known as the Kypchak, Qypchaq, Qypshaq or the Northwestern Turkic languages) are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family spoken by approximately 30 million people in much of Central Asia and Eastern Europe, spanning from Ukraine to China.

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Kyshtym disaster

The Kyshtym disaster, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 (now Ozyorsk) in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Lake Karachay and Kyshtym disaster are Radioactively contaminated areas.

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Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (p; ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria; – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946, during the country's involvement in the Second World War.

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Mayak

The Mayak Production Association (Производственное объединение «Маяк», Proizvodstvennoye ob′yedineniye "Mayak", from Маяк 'lighthouse') is one of the largest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing a reprocessing plant. Lake Karachay and Mayak are ural Mountains.

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NASA WorldWind

NASA WorldWind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license and the Apache 2.0 license) virtual globe.

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Natural Resources Defense Council

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a United States-based 501(c)(3) non-profit international environmental advocacy group, with its headquarters in New York City and offices in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Bozeman, India, and Beijing.

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NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946.

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Norilsk

Norilsk (p) is a closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk.

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Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast

Ozyorsk or Ozersk (Озёрск) is a closed city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.

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Plutonium

Plutonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Pure Earth

Pure Earth is a New York City-based international not-for-profit organization founded in 1999 that works to identify, clean up, and solve pollution problems in low- and middle-income countries, where high concentrations of toxic pollution have devastating health impacts, especially on children.

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Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Roentgen (unit)

The roentgen or röntgen (symbol R) is a legacy unit of measurement for the exposure of X-rays and gamma rays, and is defined as the electric charge freed by such radiation in a specified volume of air divided by the mass of that air (statcoulomb per kilogram).

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Sievert

The sievert (symbol: SvPlease note there are two non-SI units that use the same Sv abbreviation: the sverdrup and svedberg.) is a unit in the International System of Units (SI) intended to represent the stochastic health risk of ionizing radiation, which is defined as the probability of causing radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage.

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Soviet atomic bomb project

The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stalinism

Stalinism is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin.

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Strontium-90

Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear fission, with a half-life of 28.8 years.

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Tatar language

Tatar (татар теле, tatar tele or татарча, tatarça) is a Turkic language spoken by the Volga Tatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan (European Russia), as well as Siberia and Crimea.

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Techa

The Techa (p) is an eastward river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination.

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Ural Mountains

The Ural Mountains (p), or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through the Russian Federation, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.

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Worldwatch Institute

The Worldwatch Institute was a globally focused environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C., founded by Lester R. Brown.

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See also

Former lakes of Asia

Lakes of Chelyabinsk Oblast

Radioactively contaminated areas

Ural Mountains

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Karachay

Also known as Lake Karachai.