Fair use, this is an iconic picture of a lava flow from within the Chernobyl plant. This picture has been modified to have dark lines around the edges of the lava flow and at "dripping" locations to make it look more like lava and more distinct from the background.

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1. No free alternative exists. It remains impossible to manually rephotograph the scene without placing a person in mortal danger. Given an uneconomically large budget, it would in principle be possible to build a robot that could enter the plant and retake the photo.

2. The use of the picture here is unlikely to damage the copyright holder's ability to make any money out of the picture.

3. A small amount of the media is being used.

4. The photo has been shown on TV in the UK (back in about 1991)

5. The material is encyclopedic

6. The material will be used on more than one page

7. The material is not decorative

8. The material is to be only used in an article

9. The picture of the lava flow explains what happens to nuclear fuel under very bad accident conditions. Rather than using the 'Elephant's Foot' I have chosen to use the picture of the lava coming out of a pipe as it shows that that it did slow. The understanding of the lava is critical to understanding the likely release of much of the activity still within the plant which will occur potentially in the future.

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