The escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine has reached new heights with Ukraine's daring incursion into the Kursk Region and renewed concerns over the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant. As Ukraine's offensive intensifies, fears of a catastrophic nuclear disaster reminiscent of Chernobyl are growing. With the Zaporizhzhia plant already facing heightened scrutiny following recent attacks, the possibility of a severe nuclear incident looms large, threatening global security and reigniting Cold War-era fears."
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00:30it at first it resembles the foot of an elephant and you will be convinced it's just that.
00:36When you look at it the first thought that might cross your mind is what an elephant foot is doing
00:40in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. But this is no ordinary elephant foot though it may look like
00:46one. After just 30 seconds of exposure dizziness and fatigue will find you a week later. Two
00:52minutes of exposure and your cells will soon begin to haemorrhage. Four minutes vomiting,
00:58diarrhea and fever. 300 seconds and you have two days to live. Today in this video we will be
01:04telling you about this dangerous discovery which was made by the scientists and why the elephant's
01:09foot could be the most dangerous piece of waste in the world. First let us go back to April of 1986
01:17and recall what happened at Chernobyl. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located about
01:23130 kilometers north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev and about 20 kilometers south of the border
01:29with Belarus. It is made up of four reactors that were designed and built during the 1970s
01:34and 1980s. On April 26, 1986 during a routine test reactor 4 at the Chernobyl NPP experienced
01:42a power surge that triggered an emergency shutdown. Instead of shutting down the reactor
01:48kept surging power and in no time at all the plant was in full disaster mode. The control
01:55rods used to manage the coarse temperature were inserted too late into the process. Instead of
01:59cooling down the rods cracked in the rising heat from the core and locked into place. Further the
02:05water used to cool the entire reactor vaporized resulting in a massive explosion thereby
02:11exacerbating the crisis. There were two explosions. The first explosion from the steam inside the
02:17reactor was enough to send the four million pound lid of the reactor assembly through the roof of
02:22the building. A second explosion even more massive followed shortly after the first emitting the
02:27broken core material into the air spreading fire and radioactive detritus. Without the tons of
02:33steel and concrete typically used to shield it the core of the reactor began to melt. The result of
02:38the melting process was a substance called corium which cooled enough to solidify at Chernobyl.
02:44After six months of investigation researchers discovered the elephant's foot. Workers who
02:50entered a corridor beneath the damaged number four reactor months after the Chernobyl disaster
02:54discovered this startling phenomena. The corium that had hardened into a large black mass had
03:00taken the shape of the foot of an elephant and hence the crew nicknamed it the elephant's foot.
03:06This formation stood half as tall as a man and weighed as much as two tons. In one hour the
03:12elephant's foot would expose you to the radiations of over four and a half million chest x-rays.
03:17That dose is almost thousand times stronger than exposures that have been clearly linked to
03:22increased cancer risk. In the days and weeks after the Chernobyl disaster in late April 1986
03:28simply being in the same room with the elephant's foot would have killed you within five minutes.
03:34And yet in spite of the elephant foot's toxic presence in Chernobyl something strange is
03:38happening there. As strange and bizarre as it may sound many different kinds of animals aren't
03:44simply living in the radiated area they are thriving in it. The camera spotted gray wolves,
03:49red foxes, wild boars, moose and deer. It's not that the area isn't still dangerous to humans
03:56but instead the animal life seems to have found a way to thrive in spite of it. And even more
04:01important than that the flourishing animal life shows just how destructive the presence of human
04:05beings can be on the animal population of any given area. Whatever the reason the area of the
04:11Chernobyl disaster has become a kind of wildlife refugee for many different species of animals.
04:17At least some small amount of good was able to come out from one of the worst disasters in the
04:22last three decades. Other major disasters being the Fukushima and Three Mile Island disasters.
04:28Born of human error, continually generating copious heat, the elephant's foot is still
04:34melting into the base of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. If it hits groundwater it could
04:39trigger another catastrophic explosion or leach radioactive material into the water nearby
04:44residents drink. Long after bleeding from the core this unique piece of waste continues to be a
04:49testament to the potential dangers of nuclear power. The elephant's foot will be there for
04:54centuries sitting in the dark basement of a concrete and steel sacrifice, a symbol of one
05:00of the humankind's most powerful tools gone awry. This was all you needed to know about this
05:05dangerous discovery which owes its origin to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the elephant's foot.
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05:19tuned to our channel. Thank you for watching.