Watch Into History on Instagram: "This footage comes from a 1996 inspection of the Chernobyl “Elephant’s Foot,” the massive, lava-like formation created during the 1986 reactor meltdown. The object is made of corium a hardened mixture of melted nuclear fuel, concrete, sand, and structural metals that flowed through the reactor like molten rock before solidifying into its infamous wrinkled shape. Immediately after the disaster, the Elephant’s Foot was so radioactive that standing near it for a fe