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Finally! I've been watching the news and wondering why they aren't using aerial drones to get up-to-date video feeds and robots to access the dangerous areas an
by jwr 16y ago
Finally! I've been watching the news and wondering why they aren't using aerial drones to get up-to-date video feeds and robots to access the dangerous areas and at least _see_ what is going on there.
I mean, even the cheap (by military standards) Parrot AR.Drones could be used to get some imagery, assuming wi-fi relays are set up first.
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- moe 16y agorobots to access the dangerous areas They would need to be hardened, otherwise the radiation messes up the electronics within days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VVx9gRS3ug#t=1m5s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VVx9gRS3ug#t=1m5s
- curtis 16y agoEven if a robot lasted for only a few hours it could still be extremely useful. If nothing else, it might allow the emergency workers to tell for sure how much water is in those spent fuel pools.
- moe 16y agoTrue. My wild guess is that they probably already know the state of the fuel-pools from the helicopter flights - the roofs being blown off and all. On the other hand, watching those Chernobyl documentaries is not exactly faith-inducing. Considering Chernobyl was one reactor going mad and Fukushima is what, four? I don't even want to imagine what those 50 guys are going through.