In a time when the world is focused on emerging technologies and geopolitical shifts, there are still stories from the past that haven’t faded away. One of them lies deep beneath an abandoned ...

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the Elephant’s Foot was only emitting one-tenth of the radiation it once had. (Image: US department of energy) Beneath the ruined reactor lies the hardened mass called the Elephant’s Foot. It is ...

The Elephant’s Foot, a solidified mass formed beneath Chernobyl’s Reactor Four in 1986, once emitted nearly 10,000 roentgens an hour, enough to kill within minutes. Created from molten fuel and debris ...