Researchers loaded drones with radiation detectors to investigate the area devastated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Scientists who loaded radiation detectors onto drones have found previously undetected radiation hot-spots in the Red Forest, which surrounds the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The Red Forest is subsequently one of the most radioactive sites in the world: an area where radioactive particles landed on a 400-hectare section of pine forest, killing the trees and turning them a rusty coloor. A team at the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics in the U.K. collaborated with Ukraine’s SSE Eco Center organization in charge of collecting data on the Exclusion Zone for the research. They flew fixed-wing drones at 45m to 60m above the ground in the area, at around 40mph, in what is believed to be a world first. This enabled the team to reach closer than manned aircraft, and prevented researchers from being exposed to radiation.
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