• kspatlas
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    21 year ago

    Isn’t the term for the melted fuel/reactor bits corium

    • Jakylla
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      11 year ago

      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