SOMETHING DANGEROUS

 

 

If you think of something mortal, you will probably think of  a cataclysm, like a tornado, or maybe a gun or even poison; but if I told  you there is something that can kill you without touching you and It does it in less than  10 minutes? Would you believe me?

 

I’m thinking of  the fourth reactor of Chernobyl, burst up in 1986, provoking  a mix between nuclear fuel, gravel, sand and melted metal.

 

This is the most dangerous thing on earth. It is called “Elephant’s foot”  and it is the most radioactive thing on earth, it weighs 800 tons and is   2,5 metres long and  70 centimetres high. It is like solidified lava; the material was named “Corium”. It was discovered only some months later by some workers, they were near it only for a few minutes, but it was enough to kill them.

To keep its effect on the environment restricted, they built  a giant structure in concrete and steel called “The Sarcophagus”.

If someone were so crazy to approach to it, he would be invested by 10,000 rontgen per hour.

If you were invested by an amount of 10,000 rontged per hour, the first effects would be that your skin would get grey and bobbles would grow up on it, like burns. Your skin and muscles would detouch from your bones, you would get sterile and the cells that produce red globules would be destroyed, obviously as everyone imagines also your DNA would be modified.

These effects were felt by a Japanese worker, not due to  the “Elephant’s foot”, but to  the explosion of the nuclear central of “Tokaimura”

 

The accident happened because of a wrong mix of uranium and citric acid.

There were 3 workers, but the one who got more radiations was  Hisashi Ouchi .

He received an amount of radiations equal to an exposition to the “Elephant’s foot” for 10 minutes.

He remained alive for 81 days until the doctors who took care of him decided to let him die instead of  keeping on with that situation.

In the end who created this thing able to kill every kind of lifeform in a few seconds is Man, who is always the creator of his own evil.  

Alessandro Coluzzi, 3scb