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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.

Downloaded from http://www.spaceman.ca/gallery/chernobyl/f421

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.

10. The picture is used on the Chernobyl page to show what happened in the basement under the reactor and also it is used on the page devoted to how nuclear fuel behaves during an accident to show what can occur if a reactor core melts and then escapes out of the preasure vessel. So I say that it should stay rather than being removed.

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This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the articles "Nuclear fuel and reactor accidents" and "Chernobyl disaster": To illustrate the subject in question Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([1]), qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights. To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

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