Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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At thirty-six thousand tonnes, it would be the biggest land-based movable structure ever built.
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The new building would also serve as a final monument to the last resting place of Valery Khodemchuk—a radioactive mausoleum to memorialize for generations to come the first victim of the accident.
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By 1997, according to one estimate, the total losses resulting from the accident had reached $128 billion.
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The “Elephant’s Foot,” the huge congealed mass of once-molten sand, uranium fuel, steel, and concrete, found in the autumn of 1986 by the scientists of the Chernobyl Complex Expedition in the basement beneath the ruins of Reactor Number Four. It remained so radioactive that less than five minutes in its presence was enough to guarantee an agonizing death.
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