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The 'Elephants foot'

NOVA - Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus

Uploaded by Jimdangello on Jul 30, 2009 

"This episode won an Emmy. It covers the sarcophagus built to contain the remains of the destroyed reactor and the work of the Russian scientists, staff and soldiers who risked and continue to risk their lives in the clean-up operation. This file was digitized from a VHS recording of the program. The picture quality is fair, however, the sound track has some occasional static, especially towards the beginning. I think this is the 1996 updated version of the original 1991 program and includes an extra 10 minutes of interviews with several of the original scientists. It is shorter than the 60 minutes described on the BBC website and may have been edited."

SOURCE: Youtube

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The 'Elephants foot'
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The 'Elephants foot'
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The 'Elephants foot'
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The 'Elephants foot' showing where it melted through the floor
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Drilling into the chamber below the reactor and sending in a camera to search for the fuel
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Nuclear Lava
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Nuclear Lava
Related Links:
The Day of the Explosion
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Chernobyl Disaster Aftermath: very extensive damage to the main reactor hall (image center) and turbine building (image lower left ) - Soviet Authorities
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First image of Explosion
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Cross section of reactor before explosion
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Explosion rips of top of reactor and crushes reactor down
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Entire core melts through bottom of reactor
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The molten lava releases aand mixes with the sand around the reactor (yellow)
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Molten lava burns through concrete floor
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Circle marks where the "Elephant's Foot" was found
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Molten lava burns through concrete floor and pours down tubes
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Molten lava vitrifies (turns to glass from the sand) and cools. Uranium fuel is traped inside and can no longer become fissionable. However a new examination is showing the glass is deteriorating and water is seeping in again
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The day of the Explosion
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Radioactive Smoke from destroyed reactor roof
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Radioactive Smoke from destroyed reactor roof
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Radioactive Smoke from destroyed reactor roof
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Radioactive Smoke from destroyed reactor roof
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Radioactive Smoke from destroyed reactor roof
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The fuel is on fire
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