Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl)
Radioactive mass created during meltdown
Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl)
The Elephant's Foot (Ukrainian: Слонова нога, romanized: Slonova noha, Russian: Слоновья нога, romanized: Slonovya noga) is the nickname given to the large mass of corium beneath Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine. The mass formed during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster from materials such as molten concrete, sand, steel, uranium, and zirconium. It is named for its wrinkled appearance and large size, evocative of the foot of an elephant. Discovered in December 1986, the "foot" is located in a maintenance corridor below the remains of Reactor No. 4, though the often-photographed formation is only a small portion of several larger corium masses in the area. It has a popular reputation as being one of the most, if not the most radioactive object in history, though this is false. There are several more radioactive masses of corium at Chernobyl, and a spent nuclear fuel rod can emit as much as 10 times the radiation of the Elephant's Foot. Decay of its radioactive...
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