Shagan (lake)

Shagan Balapan
The lake (above) in 2009
Geographical location	Kazakhstan
Tributaries	Shagan
Data
Coordinates	49 ° 56 '7 "  N , 79 ° 0' 30"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '7 "  N , 79 ° 0' 30"  E
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

• Sedan (nuclear weapon test)
• Crater lake

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

1. ↑ ^{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