In 1986, the famous "Chernobyl Incident" occurred in Ukraine, when a nuclear reactor was detonated, releasing about 400 atomic bombs on the edge of the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, so that the town was eventually abandoned. After the local firefighters sacrificed their lives, the demon named Chernobyl appeared to be dead, but few people knew that there was still an "elephant foot" in Chernobyl, controlling the "piccolo" that awakened Chernobyl.
The so-called "elephant foot" actually refers to the core of the reactor that was detonated and melted down after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, because it is entrenched under the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and just shows the shape of an elephant foot, so we will call it "elephant foot". In the mouth of scientists, he actually has a more professional name, that is, "Krem".
There have been 5 Krems in the world today, three from the Fukushima nuclear accident, one from the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the United States, and the last one is the "elephant foot".
When the reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, no one dared to touch it because its radiation value was too high; but people could not ignore it, because its own high temperature would eventually cause it to melt the ground, continue to descend, and eventually fall into the underground river, which would be a disaster for everyone in the surrounding area.
In order to confine the elephant foot to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, local researchers urgently built a "cooling zone" under The Canobyl to barely control the downward trend of the elephant foot. It took another 6 months for people to find the opportunity to enter Canobelli and get close to the elephant's foot for a detailed investigation, but even at this time, people did not dare to get close at all, and could only snipe through long-distance guns, and finally left hastily after taking a certain amount of debris and being able to guarantee the most basic research.
This is not because people are cowardly, but mainly because the elephant's feet are too dangerous around them – even after 6 months, the elephant feet are still able to release 12,000 roentgen per hour.
What is the concept of 12,000 Röntgen radiation per hour? This means that as long as you stay next to it for 30 seconds, your life expectancy will be rapidly reduced to a week, and if you stay next to it for four or five minutes, the rest of your long life will be reduced to "dozens of hours of painful struggle.".
Yes, since intense nuclear radiation can cause the death of your body's cells and the inability of new cells to be born, the "time of death" in each part of your body is also different. The internal organ cells inside the body will not be able to hold on to the metabolism because of the relatively fast metabolism, and the cells of your head can hold out for a short period of time due to the slow metabolism, which means that you will clearly feel that your body is decaying and destroying little by little, but you can do nothing, and you can only endure the torture from the body in dozens of hours of pain.
After the elephant foot fragments were studied, people breathed a sigh of relief, because the data proved that their preventive measures were successful, the elephant feet will not continue to "fall", nor will they fall into the underground river, which means that the mess of Chernobyl will not expand anymore, so in the end, people spent 400,000 cubic meters of concrete and more than 7,000 tons of steel around Chernobyl to build a "sarcophagus" to house the "corpse" of Chernobyl.
The "sarcophagus" was completed, and the Canobelli accident was briefly contained, and it is reasonable to say that people can put their minds at ease at this time, but the scientific workers who know well the harm caused by the nuclear leak have never let down their vigilance against Chernobyl.
Ten years after the Chernobyl incident, in 1996, a radiation expert from Kazakhstan once again crossed the "sarcophagus" and entered the concentration of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, his purpose is simple, that is, to find out what the current situation of the "elephant foot" is, and whether there will be certain safety risks.
I have to say that this scientific researcher is a real warrior, he single-handedly walked to the elephant's feet, not only got the first-hand data, but also left us valuable pictures of the scene, and the facts also proved that his worries are justified, the shelf life of twenty or thirty years of sarcophagus, under the threat of more than 200 tons of krem is so fragile, at that time the "sarcophagus" has begun to gradually fail to shoulder its mission.
Fortunately, the Kazakh radiation expert Artulkonev discovered this and eventually handed over the data, and Europe was also highly vigilant about Chernobyl, and finally in 1998, a "protective shield" was built outside the original "sarcophagus", which avoided the tragedy.
But even so, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant still has the threat of "recovery" at all times, and the reason is "elephant feet".
In recent years, researchers have claimed that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has entered a large amount of rainwater, and once this rainwater meets the "elephant foot", then the "elephant foot" that has cooled down is likely to be re-ignited under the impetus of the "reducer". And once the elephant's feet are rekindled, then the "sleeping" Chernobyl will be awakened in an instant, and a catastrophe that can be called earth-shattering will come again.
Of course, due to the timely discovery, the current crisis of rekindling like a foot has been controlled, but this incident still sounded an alarm bell for us, and we must not end up with another accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant because of a momentary negligence and carelessness. This is both a responsibility to ourselves and our descendants, as well as to those firefighters and other workers who fought to control the situation at the cost of their own lives after the explosion of the reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Today, the Elephant Foot still stands beneath the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and it is not known how many years it will be in the future. In any case, we firmly believe that the tragedy of Chernobyl will never be repeated, and that future humanity will have a better tomorrow.