So now we’ve talked about all kinds of byproducts, including man-made (Fordite), nature-made (fulgurites), and one that’s a ...

There were fears that "lava" from the molten reactor ... to the story. Chernobyl's post-human landscape The miners finished their work ahead of schedule, but by then the molten core had cooled ...

The original lava at Chernobyl was the product of a series of explosions that blew apart a reactor, then ignited a fire in the reactor's core ... this dust-formation process," Corkhill said.

It is hard to imagine entering a rabbit hole under the charred Chernobyl No. 4 reactor ... turning it all into a running lava that poured down through the blown floors of the reactor complex. The lava ...