Chernobyl's "Elephant's Foot"

[Joyrex]

http://nautil.us/blog/chernobyls-hot-mess-the-elephants-foot-is-still-lethal

 

 

 

300 seconds will produce a relatively quick death, which is better than many alternatives.

 

After just 30 seconds of exposure, dizziness and fatigue will find you a week later. Two minutes of exposure and your cells will soon begin to hemorrhage; four minutes: vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. 300 seconds and you have two days to live.

 

By the fall of 1986, the emergency crews fighting to contain the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl made it into a steam corridor beneath failed reactor Number 4. Inside this chamber they found black lava that had oozed straight from the core. The most famous formation was a solid flow that their radiation sensors firmly told them not to approach. With cameras pushed in from around a corner, the workers dubbed the dimly lit mass “the Elephant’s Foot.” According to readings taken at the time, the still hot portion of molten core put out enough radiation to give a lethal dose in 300 seconds.

[Ivan Ooze]

gore and sickness

[Guest Gary C]

Pure evil.

[calx]

Interesting read, thanks.

[dr lopez]

wow

[SR4]

now that is a hearty dump

[pyramidpanes]

Irony is that the area around Chernobyl, the exclusion zone, is now a wildlife paradise with man not being there, & even within the exclusion zone nature is reclaiming the land with a wide range of indigenous species still living there. the area is still deeply affected by the radiation but somehow they are still surviving with some species developing a tolerance against the radiation. would love to go there, always reminds me of stalker

 

[Guest]

Humanity; a bigger plague than nuclear meltdowns.