gleg said russia. at first glance this isn't in conspicuous lake in kazakstan 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 does radiation fears 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 ride across it much unless you seen the machine moves on rails it weighs about one hundred eighty tunnels. to kamchatka peninsula 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 mia 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 that many mysteries.

these shots were taken on january the fifteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty five. on van de the first soviet underground nuclear explosion for peaceful purposes was carried out 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 five seconds left feet four three two one one zero. the power of the one hundred forty killer tongue nuclear charge was nine times stronger than the bomb that was detonated 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 nineteenth

sixty five a special channel was made to flood the crater with. scientists hopes that spring flood water 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 atoms for peace program most had 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. he knows these parts better than anyone else. to just move the answer do ball upon

test side of people here underground nuclear explosions work in bora wells. that have moved. to 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 unnerving it's still unknown whether the area is fraught with health risks but duty still job isn't too worried he wears a simple breathing mask and holding boots his workmate the diem's the heart of his here for the first time he's a radiation supervisor today vadim task is to test the soil to see if it was contaminated by the explosion. here in this place the background radiation that is say gamma radiation is comparable to radiation aboard an airplane . 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. or was there. it's two point three my chris. so it's like at the top yes. what do you offshore water is warm you can you and wave here especially at lunch time when he is particularly hot here to be 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 you just learned we have just seen

a young fishes off shore which at. the fish population will get back to what it used to be certainly during a warm summer. for. locals expect an influx of tourists to fish 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 basking shark which is located four hundred kilometers from the city of astrakhan in russia's south. asking 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 three hundred million years ago the ocean began to recede but it is pretty these aberration of seawater around let

a fractional salt crystallisation is used as a result then challenged structures here to consist of a mass of table salt. in the. 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 more than twenty years as watched methods develop. in the old days crowbars in spades we used to chip away at salt crystals now special equipment is means to them is just to just let it go no because this is a new generation of so mining machine and 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 sleep isn't made of wood because other materials will be destroyed by the salt 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 cars. it takes the same console 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 so it is extracted late basking chunks. huge mounds of salt rise up around.

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

become champ convention in the russian far east using volcano has a plateau roughly twelve kilometers wide and is dissected by a network of mud pulleys and hot springs. unique lakes hot steam japs and little rivers all make up the complicated hydrothermal system of the terrain. income or just schools all account day at the top comes from the spanish word which means cauldron and refers to its gigantic crater being caused by a massive explosion. was on is part of the crew not the 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 start to feel it and one as it's called to them their 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 bed trail goes north and reaches lake down here which was formed by one of whose owns or 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 but there's an island in the middle of the lake and sego is used 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 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 fury gas it which mixes with the water and streams out of the lake. the hot and 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 it photo synthesis makes the water surface bubble and also prevents me thing

and carbon dioxide beneath the lake bed from breaking out and into the atmosphere. is 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 the unesco's world heritage sites giving it special protection. question is that so much of a given to each musician has the power to find in the market place the blame and where to go from here the u.s. led drive to find a final peace settlement among the palestinians and israelis. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead at

a beach front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is where most appropriate signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to a chair we were where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra what julian cooper story on our t.v. .

would be so much brighter if you move out soon from funds to freshen these. movies from the start on t.v. dot com. one lake in the chelyabinsk region has renowned medicinal properties. it's called slant which means sweet lake because of the way the water seems to taste the farmers are in fact the water is not sweet. it has a salty taste because it contains sodium chloride and carbonate. the water is soapy 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 hectares each day rangers make the rounds looking for trance passes on thing and fishing here off a bed in. just. came here three years ago. very unlikely visitor here as they only tend to fly over the sea they took pictures 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.

headed to make it. because it's a flammable period for. yes we know about it when we watch the fire and we'll never leave garbage here. we have to move on thank you. and. this makes it a good remedy for the system. diseases affecting the joints and. diseases.

in the evening. one hundred. two hundred twelve degrees fahrenheit. explosion. most of the radiation. dumps. thrown up by the explosion. being near them today poses no threat to health even so there are no towns or villages anywhere near the lake only shepherd's makeshift welling's.

alexander has tended cattle in these parts for several years he knows how the lake was formed but has no worries about living so close to it. there are only four kilometers between my home and the lake. people have come here to measure radiation levels but nothing. each year water samples from to ghana carefully analyzed that this laboratory tests here have shown that the nuclear water is far from sas it's just 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 seven days of boston has the opportunity he goes fishing in the fish river he knows from his own experience what fishing in new bands 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 charge of to sell which other people were happy to buy the fish according to tests on the whole the radionuclide concentration did not exceed safety levels so people were allowed to eat the fish. start again so bolton was a hydrologist of 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 has a different idea. so that i think we need to create several langmore examine the territorial test range in award them the status of unesco world heritage sites. and the new clear lake would be one of them on their way or. 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 bolstering the make the offshore area is

a best about one metre deep but in the middle of the lake west 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 shock. but because of all the don't have any support in the water the water itself the port feels like it doesn't float yours and unusual sensation and just. looks like the dead sea but the water investing those 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 brian 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 shacks water for

more than fifteen minutes just to be on the safe side. ovo 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 air the procedure is thought to help cure many diseases of the lungs bones and muscles the skin and the did just have system through and we didn't suddenly take the salt from the salt lake of grind and dry it is and use an dozing unit before putting it in here. so this is where it's atomized and then the atomizers sends it into the room where the tiny particles are inhaled by patients that's in the ship the soldier mind at baskin check accounts for four fifths of russia so 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 spar tourists turn to baskin track the salt cellar that never runs dry. download the official placation to go on the phone oh i pod touch from the i choose i'm still. life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s my costs and feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com.

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