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When the Chernobyl nuclear plant suffered the power output surge that would destroy its #4 reactor, a substance called ‘corium‘ was formed. This originally lava-like substance formed out of the ...

Deep in the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, hidden beneath layers of radioactive debris, lies one of the most dangerous objects on the planet: the Elephant’s Foot. A grotesque, wrinkled mass of molten ...

Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot still sits inside the damaged reactor as a highly radioactive corium mass. Its weakening but persistent radiation keeps it central to safety research and disaster memory.