{"id":14422,"date":"2013-12-11T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14422"},"modified":"2013-12-11T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T08:00:25","slug":"a-hot-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14422","title":{"rendered":"A Hot Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/chernobyls-hot-mess-the-elephants-foot-is-still-lethal\">Chernobyl\u2019s Hot Mess, \u201cthe Elephant\u2019s Foot,\u201d Is Still Lethal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the fall of 1986, the emergency crews fighting to contain the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl made it into a steam corridor beneath failed reactor Number 4. Inside this chamber they found black lava that had oozed straight from the core. The most famous formation was a solid flow that their radiation sensors firmly told them not to approach. With cameras pushed in from around a corner, the workers dubbed the dimly lit mass \u201cthe Elephant\u2019s Foot.\u201d According to readings taken at the time, the still hot portion of molten core put out enough radiation to give a lethal dose in 300 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The Elephant\u2019s Foot could be the most dangerous piece of waste in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finestructure.com\/2013\/12\/the-melty-part-of-a-meltdown\/\">fine structure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chernobyl\u2019s Hot Mess, \u201cthe Elephant\u2019s Foot,\u201d Is Still Lethal By the fall of 1986, the emergency crews fighting to contain the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl made it into a steam corridor beneath failed reactor Number 4. Inside this chamber they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}