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. Carl willis 9 647 691 views.
Reactor hall of unit 2 chernobyl nuclear power plant duration. Inside the chernobyl nuclear power plant s shelter. The words haunting eerie and strange certainly come to mind at.
Much can be said about the photo above. Well obviously it s not an elephant s foot but a melted core of destroyed reactor 4 which resembles its shape. Maybe you didn t hear about it and you are wondering what is doing an elephant s foot in chernobyl nuclear power plant.
In the small hours of april. The elephant s foot is a mass of corium a once molten concoction of uranium graphite concrete and sand that formed during the chernobyl nuclear disaster. The bizarre sounding elephant s foot is a mass of highly radioactive material formed in the wake of the 1986 nuclear disaster which is the focus of the sky atlantic hit chernobyl.
The radioactive lava that formed was named corium. In april 1986 reactor 4 of the wladimir iljitsch lenin atomic power station near the city of chernobyl experiences a catastrophic core meltdown. All four were located side by side just outside the pripyat city limits.
In 1981 reactor number three and by 1983 there were four nuclear reactors at the chernobyl nuclear power plant. By 1978 a year after nuclear reactor number one chernobyl reactor number two was commissioned. The corium was formed in three phases.
The best known formation is the elephant s foot located under the bottom of the reactor in a steam distribution corridor.
Inside nuclear reactor core elephant foot inside nuclear reactor core chernobyl. The elephant s foot is a large mass of black corium with many layers externally resembling tree bark and glass. It was formed during the chernobyl disaster in april 1986 and discovered in december 1986. It is named for its wrinkly appearance resembling the foot of an elephant it lies beneath reactor no. 4 of the chernobyl nuclear power plant under reactor room 217.
The largest known amounts of corium were formed during the chernobyl disaster. The molten mass of reactor core dripped under the reactor vessel and now is solidified in forms of stalactites stalagmites and lava flows.
The molten mass of reactor core dripped under the reactor vessel and now is solidified in forms of stalactites stalagmites and lava flows. The largest known amounts of corium were formed during the chernobyl disaster. 4 of the chernobyl nuclear power plant under reactor room 217.
It is named for its wrinkly appearance resembling the foot of an elephant it lies beneath reactor no. It was formed during the chernobyl disaster in april 1986 and discovered in december 1986. The elephant s foot is a large mass of black corium with many layers externally resembling tree bark and glass.
