Techa - Wikipedia The Techa (Russian: Те́ча, [ˈtʲet͡ɕə]) is an eastward river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination It is 243 kilometres (151 mi) long, and its basin covers 7,600 square kilometres (2,900 sq mi) [ 1 ]
PHOTOS: Russias Radioactive River | National Geographic Russian nuclear facilities accidentally—and intentionally—filled the Techa River with radioactive waste and turned the region into one of the world's worst toxic dumping grounds
Radioactive Techa, the sad story of Russias most dangerous river Back in the early 40s of the last century, the Techa was the most common Ural river People lived on its shores, fished and swam But in 1946, construction began on the infamous Mayak plant, or D I Mendeleev Combine 817, the first enterprise to develop weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear weapons
NONGOVERNMENTAL MONITORING AND TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT OF PAST, PRESENT . . . Techa flows through the middle of a town of about 4,000, called Muslyumovo Muslyumovo is a village highly polluted by radioactive discharges from Mayak In addition to dumping millions of curies of cesium and strontium into the Techa River in the past, Mayak was
Techa – Russia’s Radioactive River - Oddity Central The Techa River flowing down the eastern flank of the Ural Mountains in Russia is considered the world’s most radioactive river, as a result of having been used as a dumping ground for nearly 80
What does Techa mean? - Definitions. net The Techa is a river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination It is 243 kilometres (151 mi) long, and its basin covers 7,600 square kilometres (2,900 sq mi)
Reconstruction of the contamination of the Techa River in 1949-1951 as . . . The output of the Techa River model provides concentrations of all source-term radionuclides in the river water, bottom sediments, and floodplain soils at different distances from the site of radioactive releases for the period of major contamination in 1950-1951