• max
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      1 year ago

      It is, though this deposit of Corium is called the elephant’s foot due to its shape.

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      Yes, actually “Corium” is a word that was made for the occasion, meaning “Element made by the core of nuclear reactor”; the elephant’s foot is that particular blob of corium that is under Chernobyl’s reactor