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The "Elephant's Foot". Once molten fuel/debris mixture that dripped down through the floors of the exploded RBMK-1000 reactor at Chernobyl. It was so radioactive and solid, they had to use a rifle to chip a piece of it off.

Date: 09/06/04
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Radiation

I've heard that this elephant's foot gives around 10.000 Roentgens

Posted by Ruben (guest) on Tue 13 May 2014 17:38:17 PDT

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Posted by Datherine (guest) on Mon 17 Oct 2011 04:43:58 PDT

James

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He was still alive when the photo was taken in 1996: "UK-CH-522 Artur Korneev, Deputy Director of Shelter Object, viewing the "elephants foot" lava flow, Chornobyl NPP. Photographer: Unknown. Fall 1996."

Other photo captions at:...

He was still alive when the photo was taken in 1996: "UK-CH-522 Artur Korneev, Deputy Director of Shelter Object, viewing the "elephants foot" lava flow, Chornobyl NPP. Photographer: Unknown. Fall 1996."

Other photo captions at: http://insp.pnl.gov/-library-caption.htm#UK_CH

Posted by Guest on Sun 21 Feb 2010 21:16:48 PST

inf@outtoafrica.com

This picture could be anything, it could even be modified.

Indeed it looks a bit like an elephant feet! Maybe it was one of the last mammoets?

Posted by Guest on Sat 17 Jan 2009 04:18:40 PST

shaky1987

it says they had to chip a piece off with a rifle. no they did'nt. they never went that close. they rigged up a camera and wheeled it in to take the pictures. to be as close to this to be able to chip a piece off would mean your dead.

Posted by Guest on Thu 08 Jan 2009 14:17:41 PST

dragonfromthedepths@hotmail.com

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at the time it would have been but some of the technicians died on the scene but it was said to have been described as a 'burning volcano' as the fires and lava flowed through the reactor apparently only a few pcitures were caught by camera and...

at the time it would have been but some of the technicians died on the scene but it was said to have been described as a 'burning volcano' as the fires and lava flowed through the reactor apparently only a few pcitures were caught by camera and permission from a friend's site i have one

Posted by Guest on Tue 23 Dec 2008 14:53:58 PST

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i herd when they whent up on th roof the radiation was so intence that they only had a matter of seconds to work then they had to get away or they might die . they sent tons of people wearing lead protective clothing to clar it all off.

Posted by Guest on Sat 06 Dec 2008 23:51:48 PST

Fishunt

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Some of the above comments are very informed, some are not so informed.
1. The Reactor Base was broken open by the impact of the loads of boron and sand dropped from high altitude by helicopters.
2. The sand was melted by the molten...

Some of the above comments are very informed, some are not so informed.
1. The Reactor Base was broken open by the impact of the loads of boron and sand dropped from high altitude by helicopters.
2. The sand was melted by the molten uranium/metal, mixed with it and flowed out of the broken reactor into the "basement" of the reactor building. This caused the "elephants foot", which I think is still giving off neutron radiation.
3. Yes, getting near any of the spent fuel will almost certainly cause you to die within several weeks/months.

Posted by Guest on Tue 18 Nov 2008 11:17:26 PST

aryan@home.nl

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The robots involved malfunctioned on the roof in such a manner that they drove themselves of the ledge. It was aptly called suicide by their human companions.
Discovery did a very good documentary, its on youtube last time I checked.

The robots involved malfunctioned on the roof in such a manner that they drove themselves of the ledge. It was aptly called suicide by their human companions.
Discovery did a very good documentary, its on youtube last time I checked.

Memorize every aspect of this disaster as it learns that governments lie, deceive or plain ignore important events that have an impact on each and every living and breathing being involved.

Learn.And.Be.Prepared.

Posted by Guest on Sun 19 Oct 2008 11:32:39 PDT

:O:

Looking through these pics while listening to Kraftwerks' Radio Activity album. VERY CREEPY!

Posted by Guest on Sun 07 Sep 2008 14:15:23 PDT

Cherno bee

if that is fuel, isnt that extremely radio active?

Posted by Guest on Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:32:23 PDT

al

youtube has clips called inside the sarcophagus. It shows how the pic of foot was taken

Posted by Guest on Tue 21 Aug 2007 14:21:31 PDT

octi

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"James. I think that picture may be a double exposure and those people arent actually there. If you look closely (at the legs of the closest guy in particular) they are slightly transparent." - That seemed possible, which was a relief, until I took a...

"James. I think that picture may be a double exposure and those people arent actually there. If you look closely (at the legs of the closest guy in particular) they are slightly transparent." - That seemed possible, which was a relief, until I took a good look, and you can see the guy's legs reflected in the water along with the lava. That can't be a double exposure. I think it's just one fellow caught moving. The poor man - he must have been terrified, and I'm sure he died an awful death.

Posted by Guest on Fri 13 Jul 2007 02:19:05 PDT

$H@KTI

here you find some more information how the reactor basse is loose!!!
http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/reports/kr79/kr79pdf/Pavlovych.pdf

Posted by Guest on Thu 19 Apr 2007 10:25:32 PDT

$H@KTI

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I,m sorry that they removed that video before you could see it!!!
On the video you could see how they went into the reactor in surch for the fuell becausse in 1998 they had manached to reach a room nearby the reactor and they drilled a hole in...

I,m sorry that they removed that video before you could see it!!!
On the video you could see how they went into the reactor in surch for the fuell becausse in 1998 they had manached to reach a room nearby the reactor and they drilled a hole in wall of the reactor.
they found out that the basse was pushed downwards by the explotion caussing the the fuell mixxing with the sand of the basse creating a lava in several chambers,they had a nica animation of it and some collored vieus of the alaifant foot butt also the steampipes and the waterbassin.
you could see the real colof of the lava and that it,s still boiling and hott!!!

Posted by Guest on Thu 19 Apr 2007 09:53:05 PDT

Centaur

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It certainly pays to read some of the information on wikipedia about Ionizing

radiation and it's affects, if you haven't already.
I noticed someone in here wrote about how our technology has become so complicated

that...

It certainly pays to read some of the information on wikipedia about Ionizing

radiation and it's affects, if you haven't already.
I noticed someone in here wrote about how our technology has become so complicated

that we do not know what to do in this situation.

From other perspectives our technology could be seen as crude, Nuclear power

generation is from what I have seen very crude even in the most safest plants, they

are still incredibly inefficient and most of all the factor which the powers that

be seem to keep consciously ignoring is that RADIOACTIVITY is dangerous.

We know it yet we keep making that yellowcake.
One thing which even for me which I find fascinating is the nature of radioactive

isotopes and what they can do, someone else in here mentioned how sources of types

can glow.

I cannot possibly imagine the level of radiation that can kill a human in a mere

instant as is mentioned on wikipedia.

I remember when I was young and they put that 60 minutes report on about chernobyl

and those ominous photos of fuel melting it's way through the site.

I guarantee you in any fashion if I was to go anywhere near that place which I

would prefer not.
I would have at least three well calibrated Gieger counters with excellent

sensitivity and as soon as that guage started getting over my own personally

regarded safe limit, I would be out of there.

As a hobby of knowledge I will always share the interest in Nuclear Physics like

many, but it simply is not worth dying for.

I really feel for all those people who have been thrown into that invisible snake

pit without the facts.
Some do know and even though the are reluctant, they go in with all their might and

mental will and give their lives to something which really is not a nice way to

die.

I hope younger generations will learn a way out of these consequences and find

better ways to produce energy.

Remember our technological experience is still very young, use this to find a

positive way to advance into the future that will benefit us all.

C

Posted by Guest on Sat 14 Apr 2007 22:09:31 PDT

ColumbineGirl

I don't know if this was the video that everyone was talking about, but youtube has a couple pieces on Chernobyl. ElenaFilatova.com (a great Chernobyl info site) has some video to download also.

Posted by Guest on Sat 14 Apr 2007 20:22:41 PDT

tanel

that video on youtube has been erased. weird, what the hell was on it??

Posted by Guest on Fri 06 Apr 2007 09:44:43 PDT

twelveways

James.
I think that picture may be a double exposure and those people arent actually there.
If you look closely (at the legs of the closest guy in particular) they are slightly transparent.

Posted by Guest on Sat 24 Mar 2007 15:03:38 PDT

$H@KTI

Check out this video that i found on youtube.com!!!
You be amazed what you see!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbnj3y6z4bU

Posted by Guest on Sat 17 Mar 2007 10:21:58 PDT

hun

"these two things"
i meant water and the uran

Posted by Guest on Sun 11 Mar 2007 13:10:17 PDT

hun

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People dug a tunnel underneath the surface towards the 4th 'unit' then they dug a hall as well, to drive the water away from the glowing and melting waste. if the 2 things would meet, Eu can't be inhabited now, since there would have been a 100 times...

People dug a tunnel underneath the surface towards the 4th 'unit' then they dug a hall as well, to drive the water away from the glowing and melting waste. if the 2 things would meet, Eu can't be inhabited now, since there would have been a 100 times greater explosion, then at Nagasaki.
that is the most terrifying

Posted by Guest on Sun 11 Mar 2007 13:08:44 PDT

Daniel

Could be one bloke actually, I presume the radiation is causing that distortion or he was bolting his arse out of that area, not that I can blame him.

And yeah, -even from above comment. :P

Posted by Guest on Wed 13 Dec 2006 17:24:51 PST

Daniel

That link James, the blokes are not even even a metre away from the foot! Damn I hope they are ok :/.

Posted by Guest on Wed 13 Dec 2006 17:22:54 PST

phdsharkey@gmail.com

They got the volunteers because the Russian Afghan war was raging at the time. 2 years in Afghanistan or 2 hours on the roof of the reactor. There was compulsory military service at the time.

Posted by Guest on Fri 08 Dec 2006 08:03:35 PST

Steve Sahlstrom (jodieandsunny@charter.net

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Hi guys, I have downloaded some amazing video footage on the elephants foot as well as other rarely seen footage at elenafilatova.com THIS IS MUST SEE STUFF!! When you get to this site click on "High Resolution Pictures and Chernoybl Videos", then...

Hi guys, I have downloaded some amazing video footage on the elephants foot as well as other rarely seen footage at elenafilatova.com THIS IS MUST SEE STUFF!! When you get to this site click on "High Resolution Pictures and Chernoybl Videos", then scroll down past the pictures till you get to the video and film clips. I downloaded one that shows the men sending a rigged up camera into the room with the "elephants foot." There is a 6min film titled "a chronicle of severe days" that must be seen too. Anyway, it's some footage that I've never seen anywhere else. I would appreciate any other links with video if anyone knows of any. Oh, by the way, does anyone know where a copy of Nova's "SUICIDE MISSION INTO CHERNOYBL" can be purchased?? I've only been able to find existing copies at a few state universities.
THANKS

Steve

Posted by Guest on Thu 23 Nov 2006 12:57:16 PST

James

There are color pictures of people walking around a lava flow at http://insp.pnl.gov/photobook/UK_CH/picturefiles/228.html. Looks like it's glowing. How does one find volunteers for this?

Posted by Guest on Sun 12 Nov 2006 20:44:53 PST

Robert

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The amount of radiation given off by uranium is related to the isotope of uranium involved (and what other radioactive contaminants it contains). Fresh nuclear fuel (uranium) that has not yet been in a reactor is relatively safe. [still dangerous, but...

The amount of radiation given off by uranium is related to the isotope of uranium involved (and what other radioactive contaminants it contains). Fresh nuclear fuel (uranium) that has not yet been in a reactor is relatively safe. [still dangerous, but nowhere near as dangerous as spent fuel). Put it in a reactor for a while and it becomes VERY dangerous--On Nukeworker.COM they mentioned something like if you put a piece of reactor waste at the 100 yard line of a football field with you would be dead by the time you ran 50 yards (or something like that--I don't remember the exact scenario).

Posted by Guest on Thu 19 Oct 2006 00:05:28 PDT

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