It not really all that dangerous unless you actually go into the plant, roughly equivalent to the exposure you get while flying, you can even take a tour of pripyat and chernobyl. And radiation causes radiation sickness and cancer. Not mutations.
On the Wikipedia page of the elephant's foot it says that it's able to be damage by a Kalashnikov rifle, meaning that somebody actually thought of and _did_ shoot the thing
So, hypothetically, we could mount modified kalashnikov rifles onto drones to heavily damage it, and potentially destroy it? Probably missing something, but maybe it’s possible. (Of course, the bits of chipped corium would be put onto some kind heat resistant and radiation stopping container)
"No one knows what happened to him" except we know his name, his date of death, and the fact that he visited the basement several times and lived to a respectable old age.....
@@ducminh7568 there's a youtube video of him inside the sarcophagus, climbing over the rubble, laughing, etc. It's insane. It's him and another guy, who I googled, but I can't remember his name off the top of my head.
Artur Korneyev wasnt the first one to take a photograph of the elephants foot though. he inspected it a decade later I think, when the radiation was already weakened. i read some articles saying months after the incident, some liquidators were able to explore the area and poked a camera around a corner to take a photo of what was causing the big radiation spike, and it was indeed the elephants foot. no records show who these liquidators were and it was understandable, since by that time they didn't even know how many workers were deployed or volunteered overall. one documentary stated that those who took photographs of it first, eventually died of damage caused by the extreme amounts of radiation of being exposed to the elephants foot.
@@kawaki1207 yeah the very first picture was taken in person, the guy ran around the corner long enough to snap a single picture and run back then died a few days later, after that was when they started using remote devices to take pictures!
my parents were in ukraine when this happened. they told me that the people who went there "to save the world" and all that just went to die. my parents didnt believe in the country and didnt want to die for it. i understand them. why would you want to die for someone else mistakes?
Except, it's total BS. Corium is no longer "extremely hot" as he says. You can find some interviews with a guy who went inside the Sarcophagus. And there are articles on the issue. The Elephant's Foot is slightly hotter than surrounding area, but it's not melting. The New Safe Confinement was built to deconstruct the Sarcophagus and remove all the radioactive waste. They are already deconstructing it. So, don't worry.
He's still alive but is riddled with health problems related go radiation. He is now banned from going near the site to prevent further radiation exposure which will likely kill him.
4:00 Thath "ghostly" effect is caused by long exposure shooting. It was dark in there and he decided to open a shutter for a couple of seconds, so film could absorb the light and give a decent picture. But the radiation actually can make the photo grainy, because atomic particles are flying through the film and matrix penetrating them.
The man who took the picture of the “Elephants Foot” died not long after the picture was taken. You could say that this one picture, for the world to see, cost him his life.
Every atom of uranium is like a bullet, penetrating everything in its path - metal, concrete, flesh. Now, Chernobyl holds over three trillion of these bullets. Some of them will not stop firing for 50,000 years.
Hopefully a lot less. The New Safe Confinement dome doesn't just contain the dangerous material, it has equipment to demolish the old sarcophagus, and then clean out all the toxic material still inside. If all goes well that should be completed around 2065.
Guy: We can do it! Later... Pastor: We are gathered today because a dumbass died from extreme, radiation exposure when he attempted to relocate the Elephant's Foot in the basement of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that exploded back in 1986... :P
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As you can see, the photograph of the Elephant’s Foot is grainy, distorted, and dotted with strange marks of overexposure. This is not the result of poor camera quality, nor some Instagram filter, it’s due to radiation messing with how the film developed. Remarkably, Korneyev is believed to still be alive. Although, perhaps surprisingly, he suffers from cataracts and other health problems due to his frequent run-ins with heavy radiation at Chernobyl. This is what I find. Maybe you just can't read..
@@MesIys i just wrote that this guy is still alive, and he is, so why do you think that i am not able to read? And while you may be partially correct about some sort of grain in the photo could come from radiation, the ghost-like appereance is clearly coming from overexposure and not from radiation. You can get the exact same effect without the presence of radiation.
For those wondering why we don't just remove the Elephant's Foot before it hits said groundwater: Russia found a Nazi prototype tank in the aftermath of WWII called the Maus tank. The Maus weighed over 100 tons, and even though the Maus is a vehicle that is made to move, they still found it much easier to just build a museum around it at it's present location instead of relocating it to a museum. Now imagine how hard it would be to move a subterranean wad of ultradense and ultrahot metal that is doing it's very best to actively kill you. It's likely going nowhere. (Except down, of course.)
No they did move it to Kubinka, It was tested at Kummersdorf and left it there. The soviet just moved it to Kubinka and gave it to the Kubinka museum..
SleepySkull and if you think the soviets didnt own germany after ww2 then your forgetting about the berlin wall, east germany, the warsaw pact, and the iron courtain. Soviet union could do whatever they wanted with their half of germany for nearly half a century.
I think it’s because the bottom control rods have tips of graphite meaning when they are first put into the reactor to turn it off, there is a surge in energy meaning it overheats then explodes
In the reactor core, superheated uranium was used to cause immense heat and steam to power wind turbines for power and electricity. A very efficient way for providing power by the way. However, in this case, the graphite rods were used to position themselves inside the reactor to provide an equilibrium of power and properly dispersed heat. These graphite rods were not properly lowered into the reactor at the time of testing, and in turn it caused a massive flux in heat which actually melted the steam pipes beneath the core. This cocktail of steam, water and pressure caused a massive explosion releasing all of the contained graphite and uranium infused rods out of the core and radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere.
4:10 the sight is "ghostly" because it's just a flashback from the mirror that was put on a wall to take a photo (RC camera was destroyed by radiation)
Wasnt it a test that was supposed to prove that in the event of an emergency, the spinning mass in the plants generators could generate electricity for the coolant pumps until the backup diesel generators could start
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Well, the video is highly misleading. I cringed so much when watching it. Elephant's foot is not nearly as radioactive as it was 40 years ago. This is not a most frequented place in Chernobyl, however the background radiation levels sit around 20-30 mSv\hour which is not THAT high - if you stay there for as long 24 hours you will barely reach the levels of mild radiation sickness.. Furthermore, the Foot is not melting through anything. It's temperature has fallen to acceptable levels as early as the first month after explosion. By know it is exactly as hot as the foundation of your home. but of course, I understand that shock content generates more views..
1:13 That's not reactor 4 that you're indicating, that's the New Safe Confinement arch under construction, prior to being slid over reactor 4 which is to the right of it.
A W Well you just had an outburst from this comment. It’s just saying a car Jesus control you’re damn temper and plus English isn’t my first language so I would shut up if I were you.
Shayan Ali the moment i saw Pripiyat it reminded me of CoD: 4 i love love that game!! But hate that it is filles with hackers now, i cant multiplayer brcause i killed a hacker and got negative score like -4000000 which blocked from the multiplayer
1:12 The red box there wasn't drawn around Unit 4 (the exploded reactor), it was drawn around the New Safe Confinement building before it was completed and moved into position to enclose Unit 4 and the Shelter Structure (Sarcophagus) built by the Soviets. Unit 4, covered by the Shelter Structure, and its associated section of the Turbine Hall is the lighter coloured section at the left hand end of the long grey structure, to the right of the area indicated.
TheEgg185 reactor rooms are large and heavy so anything under it would be far removed to keep safe from radiation, meltdowns, and general weight support of the reactor
biohazardlnf I can't even comprehend what you said. The elephants foot IS the uranium that was in the reactor. It supposedly melted straight through the floor. What's it doing in the next town over?
Omg as soon as you said that it was in Russia/Ukraine, I knew EXACTLY where this was going...(cuz I had this weird phase where all I wanted to research about was Chernobyl stuff, so I know A LOT about Chernobyl/the accident...)
the corium is not "melting through" the concrete anymore. it's long since cooled off from that level of heat. it's still REALLY radioactive... but that's about it.
If the elephant's foot were a 2 meter sided cube of pure uranium it would weigh pretty close to that. But it's only two meters long on its longest side and is mostly made from melted sand which is nowhere near as dense.
@@charleswalter2902 Thank you-didn't he also say you would die within minutes if you entered the control room? How many minutes? I guess that's possible but everything I have read about ARS shows death at a minimum of 3 days.
Later in heaven: “How did you die?” “Oh, the elephant’s foot” “You got trampled to death? “No, just the elephant’s foot” “Is that a euphemism or something?” “No, it’s a radioactive blob that is in a basement” “Ha!” “No, seriously” “I’m glad I died when I did. I do not want to live in THAT future.
I had foreseen that some dick head was gonna correct your English, before clicking on the "Read More Comments" option. People are too predictable these days.
I thought the same thing, it'd be nice if he got deeper in what could happen in the future wit "The elephant's foot" and how big of an explosion it would be if it reached the water.
Bill Sci The Nyeence Guy Death wouldn't be a problem since they could use robots to dig it. It collapsing is a problem though. But they'll eventually need to dig under it to prevent it from hitting the ground water.
If the elephants foot is melting through the ground under it, can't there be things like it that aren't even in rooms? Ones that are incompletely unknown?
I remember that some guy on youtube actually made a video where he took a radioactive piece of (something?) near his camera and it caused the grain effect. The grain is purely from radiation and it effects even modern cameras.
It's also long exposure, the ghostly figure is someone standing next to it for a short period during a longer exposure time. The bright lines is probably some moving light source.
Thank you for actually accurately explaining the disaster, especially in such a brief time. Its heartbreaking to see all the misinformation; its so disrespectful to all the victims
It isn't Chernobyl itself, it is the the CNPP that is dangerous. You can go around Pripyat and the surroundings as long as you have proper equipment, it is just that the CNPP and the Sarcophagus that is deadly
Not really either tbh, around the plant you actually get pretty low doses, a few micS/hr. Even inside it's fairly ok, depending on where you are. People work there after all. Even the control room and the other reactor halls are pretty ok. Of course other areas aren't that great to stay in for more than a few minutes.
Yeah, the tourist information is "do not wear shorts", don't pick up anything or make dust rise. It's not the radiation as much as the heavy metal toxicity in tourist tour... So if you drop by Pripyat and take a look at the sarcophagus wash your clothes afterwards. My cousin went there with his wife two years ago, it's just one day trip from Kiev.
I've been there literally just today, funnily enough! Most places are just normal background, around 0.20micSv/hr. There are a few places like the red forest you drive through, where it's around 12 or so though. But even there you wouldn't pick up anything since the topsoil has been removed and all the radiation is coming from below the fresh soil. The only place in Pripyat you shouldn't walk through is the schoolyard since it is surrounded by buildings and thus the soil could not be removed. Levels there are actually also pretty low, around 0.4 I measured. But you might pick up some particles with your shoes and then fail radiation checks on the way out. You can clean it off, but it's a hassle.
Harry Marshall cherynobl is now a tourist sight everything but drinking the water there or going near the elephants is safe now hence why animals live there
lol mate, you can keep on saying it but in the end give another world war and you'll also be saying soccer. I heard china is already switching to imperial due too trade with usa
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