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The Elephant's Foot is the nickname given to a large mass of corium and other materials such as concrete, zirconium, steel, sand, uranium, and even reactor sealent, formed underneath the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, during the Chernobyl disaster of April 26 1986, notable for its extreme radioactivity.
A decade later, the U.S. Department of Energy's International Nuclear Safety Project, which collected hundreds of pictures of Chernobyl, obtained several images of the Elephant's Foot, which was estimated to weigh 2.2 tons (2 metric tons).
Jan 24, 2016 · The Elephant’s Foot would have killed anyone within a couple of minutes. Artur Korneyev, Deputy Director of Shelter Object, viewing the "elephants foot" lava flow at Chernobyl, 1996. US ...
Dec 22, 2022 · It is an enormous mass of a rare substance called corium, approximately 10 feet (3 meters) in length. Just a few minutes of exposure to it is enough to kill a person due to its high radiation ...
This is a slide I obtained from the Russians. It shows what is called “elephant’s foot.” It is melted Uranium fuel in the levels below the Chernobyl reactor. As the graphite core was on fire, the fuel became molten and the molten fuel spilled through cracks and holes on the floor of the reactor, which was concrete and 12 feet thick and it had been melted through by the hot fuel and ...
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- University of Washington Dept. of Chemistry
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- Elephant's foot (melted uranium fuel)
Late on the night of April 26th, 1986 in the city of Pripyat, Ukraine the most significant nuclear disaster known to mankind occurred with the nuclear meltdown of reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The nuclear meltdown was the cause of multiple issues, mostly man made mistakes and flaws in the Soviet RBMK-1000 design.
The Elephant’s Foot is a solidified mass of corium and other reactor materials (including an entirely new element, “chernobylite”) resembling an elephant’s foot, hence the name. It first formed following the initial reactor meltdown, which resulted in reactor fuel melting through the structure into the basement and eventually pooling ...
