With the help of a remote camera, an intensely radioactive mass was found in the basement of Unit 4, more than two meters wide and weighing hundreds of tons, which they called “ the Elephant’s Foot” for its wrinkled appearance. The concrete beneath the reactor was steaming hot, and was breached by solidified lava and spectacular unknown crystalline forms termed “chernobylites”. The resultant power surge caused an immense explosion that detached the 1,000-ton plate covering the reactor core, releasing radiation into the atmosphere and cutting off the flow of coolant into the reactor.Ī few seconds later, a second explosion of even greater power than the first blew the reactor building apart and spewed burning graphite and other parts of the reactor core around the plant, starting a number of intense fires around the damaged reactor and reactor number 3, which was still operating at the time of the explosions.Īfter the nuclear fires were finally controlled, workers scrambled to contain the invisible dangers of the failed Chernobyl core.
on April 26, 1986, when extremely hot nuclear fuel rods were lowered into cooling water, an immense amount of steam was created, which - because of the reactors’ design flaws - created more reactivity in the nuclear core of reactor number 4. The Chernobyl disaster happened at 1:23 a.m.
Even today, it radiates heat and death, though its power has weakened. In the immediate aftermath of the meltdown, spending 300 seconds in its presence would bring certain death. Lurking in the depths of the reactor ruins, the monster is one of the most dangerous things in the world. This monster was born in the Chernobyl disaster. While its power has subsided over the decades, it still emits heat and haunts the power plant’s ruins with dangerous levels of radiation. Known as “the Elephant’s Foot of Chernobyl”, this cooled molten mess of radioactive material was once potent enough to kill any human that stood in its presence. While it might just look like a regular Polaroid of some industrial sludge in a rundown warehouse, you’re looking at the epicenter of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. This image might be one of the most impressive photographs of all time. This disaster happened in1986, this picture was taken in 1996, once the radiation level was weakened. The Elephants Foot of the Chernobyl disaster.
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