Beautiful picture, right?

Truly beautiful, right?

Now before you ask me where is this place and you wish to spend some of your hard-earned money and visit with your wife, do remember to make sure you have

1. A seriously good-quality anti-radiation suit
2. A radiation meter
3. A seriously good life insurance
4. Binoculars (if you don’t have the all of the above stuffs)

Or you better take my word that seeing it in pictures is a lot safer. Because beyond the above beauties, there is another, ghastlier face-

Presenting you, the Most Polluted spot on this Planet- Lake Karachay

 , Russia

Back in the days when Cold War was at full swing, the Mayak Association, one of the country’s biggest nuclear weapons facilities, was situated close to the lake, and began dumping all forms of by-products into this lake. In addition, water from here was used for cooling purposes of the processing machinery, further aggravating the whole thing.

Apparently speedy production of weapon-grade plutonium was given far more priority than proper safety standards, and God knows who got this legend of an idea to use the lake as a temporary dumping site for all the nuclear waste until they could be stored in a somewhat better and safer underground storage vats.

Somewhere in 1957, tragedy struck in form of a plant explosion at Mayak, releasing enough contaminants to make people seriously ill. The government kept the whole thing as a secret, until one day very soon, they ended up turning an entire affected region into some “natural reserve”

 restricted to outside world. In addition, the lake since then was filled with every possible sediment from concrete to sand to make sure that somehow the pollution could be put far away from dangerous levels. However even at such points, it was said that even staying at shores of lake without proper protection for under a minute is enough to not just give you cancer, but kill you altogether!!!

While recent pictures from the lake are missing, but as far news goes, the lake has now become a “near-surface permanent and dry nuclear waste storage facility.”

But then, as far as thing goes, it is not worth of visit, unless they wish to get punched by seriously lethal doses of radiation, which has no guarantee whatsoever.

In rest of the world, you contaminate lake. In Soviet Russia, lake contaminates you!!!!

No offense!!!