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Nuke the cities and after 20 years they be like this (pics)

uncleyap

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Not so bad from what I can see, no more radiation and lives still exist.

So carry on if they want to nuke the world. :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

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<p>20 years ago they closed the nuclear testing ground in Semey, Kazakhstan and the younger generation living today knows about it only from their parents’ stories. These 20 years have shown that stopping testing nuclear weaponry does not necessarily mean that the destruction of the environment stops as well.</p>

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<p>This ‘Nuclear Lake’ is the most remarkable sight of the testing ground. It formed after a 140-kiloton thermonuclear explosion in 1965. It has a diameter of 500 meters and a depth of 80 meters. To some Soviet strategists it seemed a good idea to build water reservoirs in arid zones of the Soviet Union by means of thermonuclear explosions.</p>
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<p>Water in the lake is not radioactive. You can even see fish swimming in there. However, these dosimeters installed at the lakeside indicate radioactivity which exceeds permissible level of radiation by 114 times.</p>
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<p>A 140-kiloton explosion is equivalent to an explosion of 2 thousand wagons with trotyl.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-24.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>During the explosion, a lot of ground was thrown out of the crater. Some pieces are found one kilometer away. They are also very radioactive.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-25.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The explosion has turned granite into volcanic pumice stone.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-26.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This man watches the lake. He is one of the scientists who participated in the construction of nuclear weaponry in the Soviet Union.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-27.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>In the Chagan River they found tritium which concentration exceeds maximum allowable limit for drinking water by 100 times!</p>
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<p>It’s hard to believe but several kilometers away from the ground there live people who breed cattle and drink water from the contaminated river.</p>

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<p>Perhaps, they have no electricity there.</p>
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<p>This business activity is just amazing!</p>
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<p>They say that horses do not eat contaminated ground that is why the milk they give is clean.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-33.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Such objects need constant observation because no one knows for sure which processes are going on underground right now.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-34.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>One of the shell holes.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-36.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>A fox’s skull found in the forest turned out to be nonradioactive.</p>

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<p>The city of Kurchatov is the former center of the testing ground.</p>
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<p>Nice ruins…</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-41.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Looks like a ghost city.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-42.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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<p>One of the nuclear reactors built by the Soviet specialists.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-45.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Here they carry out experiments to determine possible consequences after an explosion like it happened in Chernobyl or Fukushima.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-46.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>These experiments were ordered by the Japanese Agency of Atomic Energetics.</p>
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<p>Chief Engineer and Manager Valery Gaydaychuk.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-48.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Carrying out some test.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-49.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>One more nuclear reactor is located underground.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-50.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is a one-kilometer-long underground passage leading to it.</p>

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<p>‘Baikal -1′ Nuclear Reactor Manager Alexander Kolbaenkov.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-53.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>He’s been working here for over 40 years.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-54.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>In this storage they keep used nuclear fuel.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-55.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>In 1949, at this place there was an explosion of a Soviet nuclear bomb.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-56.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>With the help of this construction they measured shock waves.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-57.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Measuring the level of radioactivity.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-58.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>First Soviet nuclear bombs were ‘dirty’ that is why the ‘testing field’ is contaminated with plutonium.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-59.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Measuring equipment was located inside this construction.</p>

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<p>Some workers live in these boxes which are situated on the ‘testing fiels’. Plutonium is very dangerous and once it’s in the body, it remains there forever, destroying it.</p>
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<p>An experimental farm.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-62.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This brave guy takes care of the cattle.</p>
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<p>At this farm animals eat contaminated food and drink contaminated water. The purpose of the experiment is to determine the level of radiation which the people who live there receive.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-64.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-32.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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<p>This is a prototype of the thermonuclear reactor of the future.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-67.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>One of the scientists.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/firinggroundtwentyyearslater/firinggroungtwenty-68.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Melted concrete found at the ‘testing field’.</p>
 
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