Chagan nuclear test.

Lake Chagan (or Lake Balapan), Kazakhstan, 49.93° N 79.01° E, is a lake created during the Soviet atomic bomb project by the Chagan nuclear test. It is roughly 10,000,000 m³ in volume. Image File history File links Chagan_nuclear_test. ... Image File history File links Chagan_nuclear_test. ... The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb began during World War II in the Soviet Union. ... Chagan nuclear test, not to be confused with Joe 1. ... To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists volumes between 10 million and 100 million cubic metre (107 to 108 m3). ...

Lake Chagan

Of note, it was part of a Soviet effort to mimic the US Operation Plowshare to investigate peaceful uses of nuclear weapons; the Soviet program was Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy. Image File history File links Lake_chagan. ... Image File history File links Lake_chagan. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics/ Communist state Area  - Total  - % water Largest on the planet 22,402,200 km² ?% Population  - Total  - Density 3rd before collapse 293,047,571 (July... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... The 1962 Sedan plowshares shot displaced 12 million tons of earth and created a crater 320 feet deep and 1,280 feet wide. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ... Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy was a Soviet program to investigate peaceful uses of nuclear weapons (PNEs). ...

The site was chosen so that the lip of the crater would dam the Chagan River during its high spring flow. The resultant crater had a diameter of 408 meters and was 100 meters deep. A channel was cut through the upstream lip of the crater allowing it to fill as well.

As of 2006, the area is still radioactive, and has been called the Atomic Lake. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Radioactive decay is the set of various processes by which unstable atomic nuclei (nuclides) emit subatomic particles. ...

External links and references

• On the Soviet program for peaceful uses of nuclear weapons
• http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovwpnprog.html#Chagan