to explore the wonders and mysteries of some of the world's largest lake city russia beyond. at first glance this isn't in conspicuous lake in cassocks stump but it didn't form under natural circumstances it's called the nuclear lake and it owes its appearance to the energy of the atom there is a long running argument about whether it's dangerous to swim in it is this really should seriously twenty times as high as it can be according to safety regulations . most of the surface of lake basking jack in russia's south is as hot as ice so much so that even trains can right across it much unless you seen the machine moves on rails it weighs about one hundred eighty. two cam chunk of an inch in the russian far east is known for its distinctive flora and fauna but you can also find some strange bodies of water lake del near was born from a volcanic eruption that's also a lake of sulfuric acid here there are quite a few such lakes across russia and the c.i.s.

countries to this day people still haven't done ravel many mysteries. the shots were taken on january the fifteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty five . on that day the first soviet underground nuclear explosion for peaceful purposes was carried out in what was then the kazakh republic the aim was to create a reservoir. is about to be set on. they count down to detonation has begun is five seconds left four three two one zero. the power of the one hundred forty killer tongue nuclear charge was nine times stronger than the bomb that was detonated at hiroshima the blast tore a hole in the landscape. after it had settled the crater left behind it was four

hundred thirty meters in diameter and one hundred meters deep. in april nine hundred sixty five a special channel was made to flood the crater with. scientists hopes that spring floodwater would fill the giant basins they also hope the craters would provide enough water for irrigation and cattle breeding because they didn't expect much of operation from the relatively small surface area. in the one nine hundred sixty s. the soviet union carried out one hundred twenty four nuclear explosions under the atom for peace program most have the aim of facilitating the mining of minerals forty five years on scientists at kazakhstan's institute of radiation safety and ecology still regularly monitor radiation levels in the nuclear lake today a group under the direction of yuri still joke is heading that yuri moved to kazakstan from ukraine in the early one nine hundred ninety s. you knows these parts better than anyone else. they just move the no answer do ball

upon test side of people here underground nuclear explosions work in burra wells the only. gun lies in the midst of a vast plain reservoirs are few and far between here it's one of the largest lakes in eastern cassocks down the landscape is breathtaking but at the same time having it's still unknown whether the area is fraught with health risks but duty soulchild isn't too worried he wears a simple breathing mask and top hole in boots his workmate the deems the thought of he's here for the first time he's a radiation supervisor to david eans tosk is to test the soil to see if it was contaminated by the explosion. here in this place background radiation that is say gamma radiation is comparable to radiation aboard an airplane but you someone stays here for ten to fifteen hours they will get

a doze matching the one that people had during an air flight. in one thousand nine hundred one yuri was an army serviceman at a nearby military test range he often came here to base even then he was not afraid of the radiation. is two point three micra civet. so it's like at the top yes. the off shore water is warm you can you and wave here especially at lunch time when he is particularly hot here the salty but i've got no other concerns about it. scientists say the level of radiation you klyde contamination in the lake poses no health threat even though the water's chemical properties and salty taste make it unsuitable for drinking life can still be found we need some tiny fish thrive on

the lake bed and what we have just seen young fishes off shore. chances are the fish population will get back to what it used to be certainly during a warm summer. or. locals expect an influx of tourists efficient return to the new clear lake for the time being though travel is preferred to steer clear of check on. by contrast people from all over the world flock to lake bascom jack which is located four hundred kilometers from the city of astrakhan in russia's south. baskin jack is a unique reservoir there's about as much sold here as in the dead sea three hundred grams per liter. or is it was this can chuck lake is left over from an ocean that once covered the earth and that of the three hundred million he has ago the ocean

began to recede at presidio but this is pretty the a separation of sea water and let a fractional salt crystallisation is used as a result the challenged structures here to consist of a mass of table salt. in this order. historian say salt was first minded like baskin took fifteen hundred years ago today the mining is done industrially. not know the bias has been working in salt mining for mold and twenty years has watched methods develop. in the old days crowbars in spades we used to chip away at salt crystals now special equipment is used to the worm is just see just so you. know because this is a new generation of salt mining machinery such machines have been in operation here for only a decade they're made locally and you won't find such powerful machines anywhere else in the world much and as you've seen it moves on rails it weighs about one

hundred eighty tons used to form. tracks laid on a seam of souls in the middle of the lake allow the device to move to and fro. the sleepers and made of wood because other materials will be destroyed by the soles powerful blades he used to cut off and loosen the seam of hard crystals. the salt is then mixed with water and sent to a special chamber under pressure. here the crystals are separated from the water flushed and loaded into rail comes. in takes the so-called soul chip one alan to mine some three hundred tons of salt. as a rule the mining season begins in march and lasts until november both white and industrial salt is extracted at lake basking chunks. huge mounds of salt rise up around.

but it will wish it were boarded up a builders a moves the soul into which we cool. and then take it to. where it's grown to. the lake. to be inexhaustible with stocks naturally replenishing. it's sort of the the fact of the matter is that when mine salton proportion to income and mounts and down to million tonnes a year. this means there is a state of which is good for the ecology of the system in.

the camp champ convention in the russian far east using volcano as a plateau roughly twelve kilometers wide and is dissected by a network of mud pulleys and hot springs. unique lakes hot steam jets and little rivers in make up the complicated hydrothermal system of the terrain. income or just cold is our account there again the term comes from the spanish word caldera which means cauldron and refers to its gigantic crater being caused by a massive explosion. was on is part of the crew not natural reserve. lives and works here during the summer season he make sure visitors don't enter the geothermal field without special permission and the company's excursions to protect tourists from the beds which live in the area. brown bears

enjoy both the cool grass and the hot earth of the caldera making trails among the hot springs but it takes practice to master them. welcome martin young bears have found skin on their paws so while their mothers can walk on the harder it is really the young one started to feel it and one is a skull to them the mother was walking ok while her little one just ran away to the shore and washer from there but the couple remember what the mother did and will be able to find food. the bad trail goes north and reaches lake down here which was formed by one of whose homes are options it's the only lake in the county there that has cold clear water it's about a mile wide and is surrounded by siberian pine the bank is quite steep and there's hardly any shoreline around the lake just a narrow black ring of ash and volcanic rock the surface of lake down the is never

choppy researches haven't found a single living organism in the lake until now. there is an island in the middle of the lake and sego is use it for nesting they must have brought some impregnated fish eggs or some baby fish and this must have started a new species we recently found one fish ashore and a look quite a bit different from one of the salmon breeds the arctic char it must have developed differently possibly because of poor nutrition. this lake is known as a chloride mineral lake within it a species of bacteria which produce self your account which mixes with the water and streams out of the lake. halston warm lakes of the use on caldera hostile to any advanced life forms they've been taken over by blue green algae. the process of oxygen exposure synthesis makes the water surface bubble and also prevents me

thing and carbon dioxide beneath the lake bed from breaking out into the atmosphere . that this area has a unique composition of both earth and water. you can find bacteria here with completely different biochemistry and belonging to different groups and that's very interesting. each lake in the use on caldera is an isolated ecosystem with its own chemistry and indigenous organisms and is among unesco's world heritage sites giving it special protection. culture is that so much different and there's a huge reason to share the power on the market playing the blame game and where to go from here the u.s. led drive to find a funny peace settlement among the palestinians and israelis. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead at

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are doing and in fact the water is not sweet a myth it has a salty taste because it contains sodium chloride and carbonate. where the water is soapy well there is a lot of alcohol in it. any clothing no matter how dirty. it can be easily washed here without using any soap. the lake is in the nature reserve a protected area totaling eighteen thousand act as each day ranges make the rounds looking for trance passes on thing and fishing here off of bed. sweet lake is one of twenty. three years ago. very unlikely visitor here as

the only town to fly over the sea they took pictures of it and prove that it really was. the best. and is considered to be one of the cleanest. it's also powerful healing properties several hundred people. each day. checks to. heaven to make it. because it's a flammable period and the forest is near. yes we know about it when we watch the fire and we'll never leave garbage here. we have to move on thank you. tests. and various.

this makes a good remedy for the immune system it also helps fight diseases affecting the joints and. because she wants to prepare herself. and. who has allergies. diseases. every little scratch there's a good deal silver in the lake. the readiness goes away without a trace. in the evening. of sweet like. a reach as high as one hundred. or two hundred twelve degrees fahrenheit.

was the first manmade reservoir to be created by an experimental explosion. it's been scientifically demonstrated that most of the radiation was concentrated in dumps. thrown up by the explosion. today poses no threat to health even so. villages anyway. makeshift. alexander has tended cattle in these parts for several he knows how the lake was formed but has no worries about living so close to it. people have come here to measure radiation levels but found nothing.

each year water samples from to gun a carefully analyzed that this laboratory tests here have shown that the nuclear water is far from saying. it's just down the cesium is what we find most of all. we also find strontium and sometimes plutonium. there not in heavy concentrations but it's made it to keep away from them. an experiment was set up inch again in the late one nine hundred sixty s. . thirty six types of fish including purana were released into the lake over several years only koppen tend to manage to adapt to their new habitat. whenever sort of has the opportunity he goes fishing in the fish river he knows from his own experience what fishing in is all about he worked there in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . there was even

a fishing cooperative here they caught fish and took it to court charged of to sell which other people were happy to buy the fish according to tests on the whole the radionuclide concentration did not exceed the safety levels so people were allowed to eat the fish. start again so bolton was a hydrologist at the time. his job was monitoring the amount of incoming water nets were used to catch the fish one basket wielded some five hundred kilos. i saw several unusual fish one of them had only one eye others had a tail looking like an airplane fin this is what it looked like but i didn't see these specimens very often. today the test range territory including lakes again is rarely used in agriculture the future of the lake and surrounding area is an

open question some suggest that fish should be bred here again yuri still took has a different idea. so that i think we need to create several langmore examine the territorial test range and award them this status of unesco world heritage sites. and the new clear lake would be one of them there we are. on weekends hundreds of people visit like boston jack in the astrodome region to bathe and have a good time. actually there's very little water in the lake the offshore area is a best about one metre deep but in the middle of the lake where salt is mind it can be as deep as eighteen or metres. the water is in fact concentrated brine it's nearly impossible to seem can bask in chalk. but because of all you don't have any support in the water the water itself the port feels like it doesn't float yours and unusual sensation and. looks like the dead sea but the water investing

his words were as the water of baskin chakra helps initiate a natural healing process was knighted as he knew all living creatures on the earth originated from the ancient ocean and a long time ago is that people's blood plasma has the same condition as ancient oceanic water and the composition of the brine of lake described chuck is very similar to that of the blood plasma of humans only the concentrations are different . doctors advise people against staying in baskin jacks water for more than fifteen minutes just to be on the safe side. over the lakes water the sultan mud have healing properties treatment should only be conducted under medical supervision. various procedures are administered at this nearby sanatorium. the room is like a salt cave patients here breathe in specially made salty yet the procedure is

thought to help cure many diseases of the lungs bones and muscles the skin and the detest of system. video and said we take the salt from the salt lake grind and dry it is and use and goes in unit before putting it in here. this is where it's atomized and then the atomizers sends it into the room where the tiny particles are inhaled by patients with the salt mind to check accounts for four fifths of russia's salt production its properties make it among the world's best. though we have to watch our intake salt is the minimal no animal can live without so it's little wonder that medics minus and spot tourists turn to bask in. the salt cellar that never run strong.

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