Name: Karachay, The Concrete Lake
Duration: P00H04M59S
Description: Karachay is a 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. According to an official report, the area became the most polluted spot on Earth, with a level of radiation sufficient to give a lethal dose to a human within an hour.

Karachay, The Concrete Lake

from Ventum iam ad finem est by Nadir

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Karachay is a 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. According to an official report, the area became the most polluted spot on Earth, with a level of radiation sufficient to give a lethal dose to a human within an hour.

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Raising Cold War tensions, founded the Mayak combine
In quest for nuclear power reactors brought on line

In secrecy, fully operational as planned
But accidents, disasters came to pass and it soon got out of hand
In a godforsaken land

A lake in a shell
Of soil and concrete sealed
Poisonous dust in the wind
Above the toxic field

A lake in a shell
Of soil and concrete sealed
Groundwater tainted
Beneath the toxic field

Waste disposal strategies never proven to be profound,
Geiger counters ticking nervously all around

And so the lake Karachay became a dumping ground for waste
Engineers never cared to handle it properly in their haste
The whole land defaced

A lake in a shell
Of soil and concrete sealed
A lethal dose of radiation
Within an hour out in the field

A lake in a shell
Of soil and concrete sealed
The most polluted spot on Earth,
For many decades concealed

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from Ventum iam ad finem est, track released November 13, 2015

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