Deep in the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 ... A grotesque, wrinkled mass of molten corium, this deadly relic of the 1986 nuclear disaster is a chilling testament to the sheer power and ...

Corium lava was produced at both Chernobyl and Fukushima Dai’ichi, and on a smaller scale at Three Mile Island. It’s a rare thing, this man-made lava, and it’s only produced when humans ...

Although the sarcophagus over the Chernobyl power plant is designed to ... there are still several hundred tons of radioactive corium and dozens of tons of uranium and plutonium under the rubble ...

Buried deep within Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 ... Researchers continue monitoring the corium to understand its long-term effects. The Elephant’s Foot isn’t just deadly—it’s still changing ...

The containment arch protecting the remains of reactor No. 4 at the former Chernobyl power plant, after a drone attack, in Ukraine, on February 14, 2025. EFREM LUKATSKY / AP A Russian Shahed drone ...