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"The photo is made from the helicopter on May 3, 1986." (original caption) Is this the glowing column of ionized air that was reported, or smoke from the graphite fire?*
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| Excellent colour photo of Chernobyl, right after the explosions. I believe the circular vessel lid is visible in the centre of the debris.*
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| Colour photo of the exterior of the Chernobyl power plant shortly after the explosion, just outside the Russian town of Pripyat. How shortly is unknown.*
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| Looking into the debris-filled reactor (look for the inverted lid on the left). The 1000-ton lid is now wedged 4 feet lower than it rested before the explosion. Taken from GlobalSecurity.org.*
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| Diagram of the reactor vessel. Gray represents the debris/silica/boron mixture thrown by military helicopters. The green circle is the inverted 1000 ton vessel lid, at approx 15 degrees from vertical.*
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| General flow of radioactive molten fuel mixture through the floors below the Chernobyl 4th-block reactor.*
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| Picture shortly after the Chornobyl/Chernobyl explosions outside the town of Pripyat. Concrete being pumped in in an attempt to pave-over and contain the radioactive materials.*
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The "Elephant's Foot". Once molten fuel/debris mixture that dripped down through the floors of the exploded RBMK-1000 reactor at Chernobyl. It was so radioactive and solid, they had to use a rifle to chip a piece of it off.*
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| | Entire floor covered with once-molten fuel/metal mixture. #5 is an electronics cabinet, knocked over by the explosion and partially incorporated into the fuel lava.*
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| In the "steam distributing corridor", pictures translated from russian: 1 - fuel lava (aka FCM), 2 - concrete, 3 - parosbrosnoy valve, 4 - capacitor.*
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