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Quasar Quest | Beyond Astrophysics on Instagram: "This isn’t lava. It’s something humanity was never meant to see. This is the Elephant’s Foot a mass of molten nuclear material formed during the Chernobyl meltdown. When the reactor exploded, uranium fuel, concrete, steel, and graphite fused into a single substance called corium. At its peak, standing near it for even a minute meant fatal exposure. Even today, decades later, it remains one of the most dangerous objects on Earth. What makes it ter