10 MOST TOXIC Places On Earth

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from dirty cities to nuclear wastelands these are the most toxic locations on earth number 10 la aurora peru la aurora is the city of about 33,000 people on the river Montero in Peru in 1533 the Spanish to small-scale mining development here since then it has only grown in size then the Americans got their hands on the land a smelter was built in 1922 by the Americans Cerro de Pasco corporation ever since then the smelter La Hoya's main employer has been exposing people of this city to toxic emissions in 1997 Doerun Peru acquired La Joya smelter and with it inherited all of the problems that the smelter caused the previous owners had not invested in any cleanup operations the water in the river became toxic and the soil was poisoned with alarming amounts of lead in La Jolla 99 percent of children have high levels of lead in their blood the average lead level according to a 1999 survey was tripled the w-h-o limit dal run Peru has developed an environmental management plan for the smelter it's believed that the implementation of this plan will be effective but not immediately meanwhile red alerts to stay inside will be issued when needed number 9 Dhaka Bangladesh Dhaka the capital city of Bangladesh has ranked second on the global list of worst air polluted cities in the world between January 7th and 10th 20th 2018 pollution level measurements in the air quality index were incredibly high branding the air quality extremely unhealthy this is not the only time the air pollution in Dhaka reached those alarming levels every year in this city of 16 million people air quality falls while numbers of asthma attacks and respiratory issues spiked Bangladesh kind only has two seasons one wet and one dry season pollution is usually at its highest during the dry season when there is no rain to clean the air up and most road and construction work is ongoing so if you're gonna go vacation in Bangladesh and go into wet season you number eight Nouriel russia Norrell's is an industrial city in russia built in 1935 as a slave labor camp smelting began in the 1930s and now Norilsk has the world's largest smelting complex that's something to be proud of the city has been branded as the most polluted city in Russia where the snow is black Aran tastes like sulfur and rivers run red sometimes life expectancy of employees in the smelter is ten years below the Russian average by some estimates 1% of the world's sulfur dioxide emissions come from the real Snickle mines nearly 500 tons of copper and nickel as well as 2 million tons of sulfur dioxide are released into the air annually in 2016 the nearby Dell Deccan River turned red and evidence pointed to privately owned wastewater pipes the company accepted the responsibility while claiming that the coloring was of no danger to humans or Wildlife very believable the smelting plant was in the process of being modernized than steps are being taken in order to reduce pollution hopefully those steps will make for a much better Norilsk number 7 Nevada proving grounds Nevada Nevada proving grounds now known as the Nevada Test Site or Nevada national security site is the US Department of Energy reservation in Knight County Nevada 65 miles northwest from Las Vegas it was established in 1951 for testing of nuclear devices bombs nuclear bombs the mushroom clouds from the tests attracted many tourists however st. George Utah suffered the greatest negative impacts from these tests when scary particles up there and reports note that there was a significant spike in cancer patients at the time the tests stopped in 1994 but the area is still extremely radioactive even though the radioactivity in the water is gradually declining isotopes like plutonium and uranium could pose risks to workers or future settlers on the NSS for tens of thousands of years fun what do you guys think should I go check it out number six Shanghai China in December of 2013 Shanghai suffered a great spike in air pollution when the so-called 2013 eastern China's smog event occurred the pollution levels were between 23 and 31 times the international standards nearly 1/3 of all government vehicles were pulled off the streets construction work was halted students outdoor activities were suspended flights were canceled or diverted and so on even though air pollution in Shanghai is substantial by the world standard it is still lower than other cities in China among the top 500 most polluted cities in the world China claims 179 spots China is struggling to control pollution mostly caused by burning of coal and factories chemical dumping and urbanization up to seven hundred and sixty thousand people die prematurely each year in China because of air and water pollution it's believed that the Chinese government asked for some of the results not to be published in order to avoid social unrest thankfully China is taking extremely serious measures to reduce pollution closing down coal factories smelters and mills while switching over to more eco-friendly energy sources number five Northwest Arctic Alaska out of all the states in the Union Alaska produces the most toxins outranking every other state by nearly three times a closer look reveals that 91% of all of Alaska's emissions come from one County Northwest Arctic most of it originating from one city cut Cebu population 7,500 people so how is it possible that a tiny city in the middle of nowhere Alaska is responsible for so much pollution well just 90 miles from that city is Red Dog Mine the largest source of zinc in the world it was established in 1987 in each year it releases 756 million pounds of toxins into the environment most of the residents of Kotzebue and other nearby villages keep a substance lifestyle the village Kivalina is located near the wool ik river a source of fish in fresh drinking water unfortunately it's also where the mines wastewater is discharged the mine claims that the water is fine but residents have been reporting more people getting sick especially newborns with illnesses they have never seen before in the area number four are said to mine Germany the a/c to mind opened around 1906 initially extracting potash and producing rock salt but during the period between 1964 and 1995 the mine was used as a storage of radioactive waste now this mine has been abandoned with barrels of low level and medium level waste in a jumbled heap some of it not even contained properly there's fears that the mine could fill with water and authorities are rushing to remove the waste with remotely operated vehicles since it is unsafe for workers to go in there the water is coming from the leakage caused by rock movements which could dissolve rock salt that was used to seal the radioactive waste authorities feared that groundwater in the region could become contaminated and are in a hurry to safely remove and store this waste before it's too late this info is kind of old but for some reason no one cares enough to write an update on the story number 3 Waste Isolation Pilot Plant New Mexico The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant history is relatively short it became operational in 1999 the facility is used to store transfer an equates leftover from nuclear weapons research transfer an equates consists of clothing tools rags residues debris soil and other items contaminated with radioactive elements mostly plutonium after the interment of waste which happened somewhere between 2025 and 2035 the caverns will be collapsed and sealed with 13 layers of concrete and salt the waste will be completely isolated from the environment or so they claim but after 15 years of successful waste removal operations the first airborne radiation release was detected beyond the site's boundaries the accident was caused by a barrel that exploded because contractors pacted with organic cat litter instead of clay cat litter oh wait wait wait wait wait pause bahs bahs kitty litter what is it turns out kitty litter is used to soak up some radioactive materials possibly due to a typo the crew packing the barrel used organic instead of inorganic kitty litter that might be one of the most expensive mistakes ever the clean-up operation ran up a nasty bill of 500 million dollars yikes number two the pacific proving grounds Pacific Ocean the Pacific proving grounds is the name given to a number of sites on the Marshall Islands and in the Pacific Ocean in general which were used for nuclear testing between 1946 and 1962 the u.s. conducted 105 atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests in the Pacific on March 1st 1954 the especially destructive Castle Bravo test was conducted it was visible from 250 miles with a mushroom clouds stretching 60 miles across it vaporized several small islands left a mile wide crater on the atoll and generated heavy radioactive fallout across the 50 thousand square mile area including 22 populated atolls about 36 hours after Castle Bravo the military evacuated their servicemen but they didn't get to nearby populated atolls for some 76 hours after the destination there was no warnings for the locals either many of the islands which were part of the Pacific proving grounds are still contaminated by nuclear fallout the radioactivity affected the residents of the islands and the soldiers stationed there the soldiers got to go home though the villagers were stuck living on their poisoned and changed islands number one free Fiats Ukraine fifty thousand people used to live here now it's a ghost town free PR was a city built to serve the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26th 1986 it also became the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster radiation levels were so high that nuclear power stations in Sweden Finland and Norway detected the anomaly 20 years later the area is still uninhabitable except for the 197 people living in 11 villages scattered in the Chernobyl exclusion zone their average age is 63 so what is the most radioactive part of the city and plant located in the basement beneath the melted reactor you will find the elephant's foot the extremely radioactive mass is made up of nuclear fuel sand concrete and steel that melted and fused together for some unknown reason you do end up near the elephant's foot just know this at current radiation levels it will only take eight minutes of exposure to cause death within two days time it's calculated that this mass will remain radioactive for the next 100,000 years and wouldn't be a ghost town without some abandoned ships and port right there had to be a spot to leave all the contaminated boats and you're looking at it it is believed that some people have dumped boats here that were built well after the disaster and what do you think should locations like these become dumping grounds for everything or should they be left alone let me know in the comments speaking of abandoned boats you'll have to check out these stand abandoned ships and planes across Europe because it's a cool video and it didn't get that many views so maybe just click on it you might like it I like this

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Length: 11min 47sec (707 seconds)

Published: Wed May 09 2018

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