The haunting photograph he captured—depicting the wrinkled, molten mass in a dimly lit, decaying corridor—became one of the most infamous images of Chernobyl’s aftermath. Korneyev’s ...

The Elephant's Foot is a two-meter-wide lump of solidified lava formed from the molten core of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Even after nearly four decades since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster ...

Chernobyl unit 4 was destroyed in the April 1986 accident ... which allowed the other units at the plant to continue operating. It still contains the molten core of the reactor and an estimated 200 ...