Ozersk – World’s Most Radioactive City: Ozersk city is in the South Urals of Russia, which is also known as City 40. It is considered to be the most radioactive city in the world, which is completely cut off from the outside world. People here must have a special visa to leave the place and foreigners are not allowed to enter. The boundaries of the city have been surrounded by barbed wire fencing.
Why was this city built?: According to The Sun report, During the Cold War, the Soviet Union built this city to compete with nuclear power-rich America. This is the birthplace of its nuclear program, Mayak Nuclear Plant was established here. It was designed to provide homes for workers and citizens. These people were brought here to help the Soviet Union in making the atomic bomb.
The city was kept secret for years
To prevent the world from getting a clue about the nuclear program, the Soviet Union kept this city a secret for decades. The place disappeared from maps, and even the names of the people living here were erased from all records, including the Soviet census.
Kyshtym Disaster – 1957
The Mayak Nuclear Plant suffered the worst nuclear disaster and reportedly dumped 200 million curies of radioactive material in the vicinity of Ozersk. And then the people living here also had to face the Kyshtym Disaster in 1957, which was the world’s worst nuclear disaster before Chernobyl. When the plant exploded, the city was bathed in radiation. Although it is not clear that How many people were killed?
Ozersk is called the ‘Earth’s Graveyard’ and is home to the ‘Lake of Death’, which is more radioactive than any other place. Now that the truth about this city has been revealed, it is still a strange place cut off from the rest of Russia, where people still live in the shadow of the Mayak Nuclear Plant, where almost all of Russia’s reactors and weapons were manufactured. All reserve nuclear material is deposited.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: December 23, 2023, 14:57
