15 radioactive places in Russia and CIS countries, from which it is better to stay away
Survival / / December 23, 2019
The above in this article, a list of objects - a good example of what makes an uncontrolled nuclear energy, human incompetence and carelessness with the environment.
Production Association "Mayak", the city of Ozersk, Russia
«Lighthouse"- it is a huge complex for the production of nuclear weapons components, isotopes, storage and reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel. In 1957, there occurred third largest (After of the Chernobyl catastrophe and Fukushima) accident in which got about 100 tons of radioactive waste into the environment. Following a bomb exploded, contaminating a huge area.
Since then, the factory has happened many emergency situations, accompanied by the release.
Coordinates: 55 ° 42'44 "with. w. 60 ° 50'53 "a. d.
Siberian Chemical Plant, the city of Seversk, Russia
Company It produces 125,000 tons of solid waste, polluting the groundwater surrounding area. According to unofficial data, the wind and rain spread the waste on a fairly long distances.
In 1993 here there was a release of radioactive substances into the atmosphere, and 1 946 people were exposed.
Coordinates: 56 ° 38 's. w. 84 ° 54 'in. d.
The test site, Semipalatinsk (Semey), Kazakhstan
Famous Kazakhstan landfill It occupies a huge area in which is placed the mass of infected objects. There was carried out the first nuclear explosion in the Soviet Union. This landfill - the record for the largest concentration of nuclear explosions in the world. There is an artificial lake, which appeared as a result of a nuclear explosion, and many other amazingly interesting, but very dangerous places.
Coordinates: 50 ° 07'00 "p. w. 78 ° 43'00 "to. d.
Western Mining and Chemical Combine, the city Mailu-Suu, Kyrgyzstan
Mailu-Suu It is one of the most polluted places in the world. Here mined uranium. Annually, the company produces and stores the near almost 2 million cubic meters of radioactive waste.
Coordinates: 41 ° 16'00 "p. w. 72 ° 27'00 "a. d.
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the city of Pripyat, Ukraine
Pripyat River and the same city this day is a black obelisk of human activity. Emissions that have occurred as a result of the largest man-made disaster, even covered the Volga region, but the area around the station is a dead zone to this day. In the surrounding areas at the moment there are more than 6 million people who are constantly experiencing the effect of radiation. The nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, emissions into the atmosphere 100 times more radiation than has been thrown out by the explosion of nuclear bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Coordinates: 51 ° 23'22 "with. w. 30 ° 05'59 "to. d.
Gas field Urta-Bulak, Uzbekistan
On this gas field December 1, 1963 there was an accident with the release of natural gas. When drilling has been pierced stratum abnormally high formation pressure (AVPD), which contained a natural gas under a pressure of about 300 atmospheres. The consequences of the accident eliminated 30 September 1966 on a directed nuclear charge. As a result, the well was pinched, the accident is eliminated, but the surrounding areas were subjected to radiation contamination.
Coordinates: 38.97 ° c. w. 64.52 ° c. d.
Aikhal village, Russia
50 kilometers east of the village Aikhal August 24, 1978 under the "Kraton-3" was produced underground explosion to study seismic activity. Power was 19 kilotons. As a result of these actions took place a major radioactive release to the surface. It is so large that the incident has been recognized by the government. But underground nuclear explosions carried out in Yakutia lots of. Increased background typical of many places now.
Coordinates: 65 ° 56'00 "with. w. 111 ° 29'00 "a. d.
Udachninsky Mining and Processing Plant, a city well, Russia
Within the framework of the project "Crystal" October 2, 1974 at 2 kilometers from the city Lucky was made aboveground explosion of 1.7 kilotons. The aim was to create a dam to Udachninsky mining and processing plant. Unfortunately, as there was a large release.
Coordinates: 66 ° 26'04 "p. w. 112 ° 18'58 "a. d.
Channel Pechora - Kama town Krasnovishersk, Russia
100 kilometers north of the city in Krasnovishersk Cherdyn district of the Perm region March 23, 1971 was carried out the project "Taiga». Within its framework has been undermined by three charge 5 kilotons for the construction of the canal Pechora - Kama. Since the explosion was superficial, there was a blowout. Was contaminated a large area, where, however, people live today.
Coordinates: 61 ° 18'22 "p. w. 56 ° 35'54 "a. d.
569 I-coastal technical base at Andreeva Bay, Russia
Storage spent nuclear fuel 55 kilometers northwest of Murmansk and 60 kilometers from the Norwegian border to the western shore of the bay faces. In February 1982 is a radiation accident - a leak of radioactive water from the pool. To eliminate the impact it took six years. During this period, in the Barents Sea water spilled more than 700 thousand tons of highly radioactive water. Now this place is empty. Infection was so severe that its effects will be felt for a very long time.
Coordinates: 69 ° 27 's. w. 32 ° 21 'in. d.
Polygon "Globus-1", the village Galkin, Russia
Here in 1971 was made one more peaceful underground explosion on the project "Globe 1». Again, the purpose of seismic sounding. Due to poor cementation of wellbore to place the charge emission occurred substances into the atmosphere and into the river Shachu. This place - the nearest to Moscow anthropogenic contamination zone, officially recognized.
Coordinates: 57 ° 31'00 "p. w. 42 ° 36'43 "to. d.
Mine "Yunkom" city Donetsk, Ukraine
The so-called object "cleat». Behind a beautiful name hides an underground nuclear explosion capacity of 0.3 kilotons, which was carried out on the territory of Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, on the eastern flank of the mine "Yunkom". Serious emissions did not happen, but at the moment the mine filled with water, and environmental well-founded fear of groundwater contamination over a wide area.
Coordinates: 48 ° 13'14 "with. w. 38 ° 16'26 "to. d.
Bay Chazhma, Nakhodka, Russia
Here in August 1985, at the pier of the Navy ship repair plant occurred accident on a nuclear submarine K-431 Project 675. Contamination covers an area of about 100 thousand square meters. After the liquidation of the accident the boat was towed to the long-term storage in the bay, along with the Pavlovsk The K-42 "Rostov Komsomolets" 627A project due to radioactive contamination as a result of the same accident.
Coordinates: 42 ° 54'02 "with. w. 132 ° 21'08 "a. d.
Condensate field, village Krestische, Ukraine
There was carried out another unsuccessful experiment on the use of nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes. More precisely, to eliminate leakage of gas from the field, which did not manage to stop the whole year. The explosion was followed by the release characteristic of the fungus and the contamination of the surrounding areas. Official data on background radiation and to the current moment.
Coordinates: 49 ° 33'33 "with. w. 35 ° 28'25 "to. d.
Totskiy landfill, the city Buzuluk, Russia
Once this range experiment was conducted under the title "snowball"- the first test of the impact of the effects of a nuclear explosion on people. During the exercise, the Tu-4 bomber dropped a nuclear bomb capacity of 38 kilotons of TNT. About three hours after the explosion of 45 thousand soldiers were sent to the infected area. Alive one unit. Deactivated if the landfill at the moment - is unknown.
Coordinates: 52 ° 38 's. w. 52 ° 48 'in. d.
A more detailed list can be found radioactive places here.