dillard over the edge concerns grow however that the scale of the spanish debt may be too big to fix it and making it sing the euro. we explore the wonders and mysteries of some of the world's largest lakes in russia and stay with us. at first glance this isn't in conspicuous lake in cassocks stone but it didn't full munda natural circumstances it's called the new clear lake and it owes its appearance to the energy of the atom there is a long running onto the end about whether it's dangerous to swim in it. twenty times as hard as it can be quoting 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 in this you see in the machine moves on rails it weighs about one hundred eighty tunnels. to kamchatka peninsula and 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 many mysteries. these 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 and 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 feet 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 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 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 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. he knows these parts better than anyone else. just move that but we have no answer do ball upon test side of people here underground nuclear explosions work in burra well so. that it was. 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 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 to david dean's tosk is to test the soil to see if it was contaminated by the explosion. would. appear 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 get 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. it's two point three micro civet. so it's like at the top yes. the off shore water is warm you can do in wave here especially at lunchtime when he is particularly hot here he says 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 insulting taste make it

unsuitable for drinking life can still be found we'd seen tiny fish thrive on the lake bed and what we have just seen young fishes off shore which it 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 nuclear lake for the time being though travel is preferred to steer clear of check. 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 seen 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 but it is but the evaporation of sea water lead to fractional salt crystallisation is used as a result the challenged structures here consist of a mass of table salt. in the. historian say salt was first mindedly bascom joke fifteen hundred years ago today the mining is done industrially. not know the bias has been working in salt mining from old 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 them is just to just let it go. 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 in it as you seem to moves on rails it weighs about one hundred eighty tons to be 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 would 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. give the crystals a separated from the flushed and loaded into rail cars. it takes the so-called soul chip one alan to mine some three hundred tons of salt. doesn't move the mining season begins in march and lasts until november. and

industrial salt is extracted a. huge mounds of salt rise up around the. builders and moves the soul into which we cool. and then take it to. the lake thought to be inexhaustible with stocks naturally replenishing. the fact of the matter is that we mine salt in proportion team common sense and all

to million tons a year. means there is a state of which is good for the it system. in the russian far east. volcano has a plateau roughly twelve kilometers wide and is dissected by a network of. springs. unique lakes. little rivers make up the complicated hydrothermal system of the terrain. taken over just school is on 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. whose own is part of the crew not the natural reserve of loss of lives and works here during the summer season he makes sure visitors don't

enter the geothermal field without special permission and the company's excursions to protect tourists from the bears 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 while their mothers can walk on the harder it is to leave 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 for . the bed trail goes north and reaches lake down the air which was formed by one of those on directions it's the only lake in the caldera 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. with there's 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 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 a fury cassatt 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. 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. wealthy british style.

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one lake in the chelyabinsk region has renowned medicinal properties. it's called which means sweet lake because of the way the water seems to taste. in fact the water is not sweet. it has a salty taste because it contains sodium chloride and carbonate. where the water is soapy there is a lot of. 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 trespassing hunting and fishing here off a bitten sweet lake is one of twenty and the reserve of which is the largest swans and other birds nestle here. scientists came here three years ago. very unlikely visitor here as they only tend to fly over the sea they took pictures of it and prove that it really was a. sweet lake is the best. and is considered to be one of the cleanest. it's also powerful healing properties several hundred people. each day ranges make checks to. heaven to make a fire here because it's

a flammable period and the forest is near. yes we know about it when we watch the fire and would never leave garbage here. could we have to move on thank you. tests. and various other. this makes it 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. skin diseases. every little scratch there's a good deal silver in the lake. the writing that goes away without

a trace. in the evening. of sweet like. may reach as high as one hundred celsius 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

welling's. alexander has tended cattle in these parts for several. but has no worries about living so close to it. home and. people have come here to measure radiation levels but so far nothing. each year water samples from to ghana carefully analyzed at this laboratory tests here have shown that the nuclear water is far from sas it's just down the cesium is what we find most of all. we also find strontium and sometimes the plutonium. they're not in heavy concentrations but it's better 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 surrogates of boston has the opportunity he goes fishing in the fish river he knows from his own experience what fishing in new t. a lake 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 a 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 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 excel in the territory of the test range in award them this status of unesco world heritage sites. and the new clear lake would be one of them. on weekends hundreds of people visit like boston chalk and the astros in region to bathe and have a good time. actually there's very little water in the make the off shore 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 shock. 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 just. looks like the dead sea but the water investing his words were as the water of bounce contract 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 brain of lake is very similar to that of the blood plasma of humans only the concentrations are different. doctors

advise people against staying in baskin chucks 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 air the procedure is thought to help cure many diseases of the lungs bones and muscles the skin and the detest of system are thawing when they don't suddenly take the salt from the salt lake 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 and they should the song to mind a baskin cheika counts for four fifth's 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 bus contract the salt cellar that never runs dry. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand days. of 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 the most appropriate city signification

a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra with julian cooper story on our t.v. .

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