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 ...

But if the fuel rods become fully molten, then you’ve got a meltdown on your hands. The largest formation of corium in existence occurred during the Chernobyl disaster. In fact, so much corium ...

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 ...

“There’s this driving sense of urgency,” she says. Before the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, molten-salt reactors seemed too expensive and safer than necessary ...

Buried deep within Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, the Elephant’s Foot remains one of the most radioactive objects on Earth. Formed from molten reactor material, it stands as a grim reminder of nuclear ...