The last time we reported on the nexus between drone technology and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011, it was focused on the Japanese city of Odaka using unmanned aerial vehicles to bring some ...

Since the Japanese earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, radiation has been drifting on ocean currents toward the West Coast of North America. Scientists tracking the radiation are using ...

A team of MIT and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) scientists, led by Ryotaro Okabe, have developed a computational model for designing simple and streamlined radiation sensor setups that ...

Chernobyl’s ghostly Red Forest, one of the most radioactive sites on the planet, has been mapped by specially-equipped drones to measure the extent of its contamination. Researchers from the UK’s ...

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Piles of highly radioactive debris are spread across the grounds of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDI), in an area larger than New York City's Central Park, according to a map of ...

Back in 2011, a team of volunteers crammed Geiger counters into bento-shaped boxes to map the radiation following the Fukushima meltdown. It turned into the biggest collection of radiation data in ...

A new international radiation monitoring information system (IRMIS), launched by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will collect and display radiation monitoring data, enabling countries ...

With the Japanese government only providing spotty information about the radiation leaking from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in the early days after the devastating March 11 earthquake and ...

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) released a new map today showing radiation "hot spots" at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDI). While the radiation levels at some hot ...

Swiss drone developer Flyability has launched an indoor drone equipped with a radiation sensor specifically for conducting inspections at nuclear facilities. The Elios 2 RAD is designed to help ...

The New York Times website has published an alarming interactive map that shows a massive plume of radiation moving across the Pacific and reaching Southern California tomorrow. The map was created by ...