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Soviet nuclear waste contaminated an Ural lake from 1951

The Soviet Union dumped nuclear waste into a lake in the Urals beginning in 1951, reportedly making its shores dangerously radioactive.

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Why it matters

The legacy contamination represents a serious, long-term public-health and environmental hazard.

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