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Russiaâs Secret City: The Most Radioactive Place On Earth. âThe arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.â âMartin Amis. In A Nutshell. Russiaâs Lake Karachay was used in the 1950s as a dumping site for radioactive waste. Now it is the most polluted place on the planet, with enough radioactivity to kill a person in less than an hour. At its height, it was putting more than 200,000 times the normal amount of radioactivity into the area due to poor waste disposal practices.
Here is the list of some of the most radioactive places on earth: The Hanford site was established in 1943 and was a key part of the US atomic bomb project used for manufacturing of plutonium that was used for the first nuclear bomb testing in Nagasaki.