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TIL that, from 1951 until a major incident in 1957, Lake Karachay in the Ural was used by the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant as a dumping ground for liquid radioactive waste and now contains 4.44 exabecquerels (EBq), causing a radiation level of 600 röntgens per hour

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