The dose rate was 600 Roentgens per hour. The water generated 600kW of heat. The solution was 10,000 hollow concrete blocks. A forensic look at Reservoir V-9. [CASE 5042 TRANSCRIPT] If you stood on the shore for sixty minutes, the radiation dose was terminal. Lake Karachay was a thermodynamic anomaly of industrial nuclear processing. By 1990, it contained 120 million Curies of Cesium-137 and Strontium-90. The concentration was so high that the lake generated its own weather. The radioactive deca