Shagan (lake)
Shagan Balapan |
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The lake (above) in 2009 | ||
Geographical location | Kazakhstan | |
Tributaries | Shagan | |
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Coordinates | 49 ° 56 '7 " N , 79 ° 0' 30" E | |
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surface | 13 ha | |
length | 450 m | |
width | 380 m | |
volume | 6,400,000 m³ | |
Maximum depth | 100 m | |
Middle deep | 49 m | |
particularities |
Created by a nuclear weapon test |
The lake Schagan ( Kazakh Шаған Sagan, Russian Чаган Tsaghan; also Balapan ) is a lake in Kazakhstan . It was created after the Chagan nuclear weapon test on January 15, 1965. This test of a nuclear weapon, which took place at a depth of 178 m, had a TNT equivalent of 140 kilotons and was part of a series of nuclear explosions for the national economy , which were intended to make nuclear weapons civilly usable. The lake's water comes from the Shagan River . Since the lake is still radioactive, it is also known as the "atomic lake".
See also
Web links
- Lake Chagan, The Atomic Lake Filled With Radioactive Water - Amusing Planet. In: amusingplanet.com. March 22, 2014, accessed May 11, 2016 .
- Born of Nuclear Blast: Russia's Lakes of Mystery on YouTube , November 28, 2010. Documentation on Russia Today's official YouTube channelin English.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Milo D. Nordyke: The Soviet program for peaceful uses of nuclear explosions (PDF; 19.34 MB). Technical Report UCRL-ID - 124410, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States), July 24, 1996, p. 13. doi : 10.2172 / 408695