Tokyo: Japan is planning to make drone to measure radioactivity in the environment after last year’s nuclear disaster.
The country’s atomic energy authority and the space agency announced a joint project in this regard, AFP reported.
Japan has been forced to invent or improve systems for measuring radioactive contamination since a 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami last year sparked the world’s worst nuclear crisis in a generation at the Fukushima atomic plant.
Remote-controlled helicopters have been used but are not suitable for remote and mountainous territory as they have to fly low and the operator has to be able to see the aircraft, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said. But unmanned aircraft could fly at higher altitudes over potentially contaminated areas, resolving the issue.
The would-be drone may be 2.6-metre-long aircraft with a 4.2-metre wingspan. Radiation from Fukushima, in north-eastern Japan, was scattered over a large area and spread as far as several hundred kilometres from the power station by wind and rain.
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