The Soviet nuclear weapons programme was completely terrifying, their early reactors were open-cycle which meant the water cooling them was contaminated and sim

The Soviet nuclear weapons programme was completely terrifying, their early reactors were open-cycle which meant the water cooling them was contaminated and simply dumped eventually leading to this lovely tourist spot where an hour on the shores of the lake would be a certain death sentence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_Lake_Karachay https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_Lake_Karachay