18:2118:21, 30 May 2024diffhist−85
Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl)
Reordering list to focus on primary 'ingredients.' Graphite is not to be found in the foot, although it no doubt contains some carbon from that source
23:4223:42, 26 May 2024diffhist−15
Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl)
The foot wasn't formed on April 26, and the disaster was not a one-day event. Replaced 'glass' with zirconium. If you know where the glass would have come from, please tell me on Talk page
23:2023:20, 11 May 2024diffhist−131
Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl)
→Radioactivity: Removing the reference to '2500 Bq,' since this is totally meaningless without stating the mass of the sample. I also heavily suspect that the source was misquoted, since this is many orders of magnitude lower than all other available data.
16:1216:12, 10 May 2024diffhist+698
Chernobyl disaster
Undid revision
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Reaper1945 (
talk) Please assume good faith and do not use improper editing practices. Substandard sources are not grounds for removing well established facts. Feel free to cite a better source if you don't like Getty images. There are hundreds.Tag: Undo
02:5402:54, 9 May 2024diffhist+698
Chernobyl disaster
→Area cleanup: Restoring, moving and rephrasing the mention of barda. I don't see how the source is dubious, regardless, the use of barda is common knowledge and could be cited hundreds of times
14:3414:34, 18 April 2024diffhist−26
Chernobyl disaster
The planned shutdown is uncontroversial and extremely well corroborated, not an assertion by Dyatlov. Also, numerous eyewitnesses agree that the button was pressed in calm circumstances