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Flyability’ Elios 3 drones integrate Mirion radiation meters for nuclear sector clients

Bruce Crumley - Feb. 28th 2023 10:39 am PT @BDroneDJ

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Flyability, the Swiss company producing indoor drones for a variety of enterprise and industrial applications, says it will now make radiation detection and measurement meters by Mirion Technologies available aboard its Elios 3 UAVs for customers in nuclear activities.

US Nuclear sends radiation-reading drone to shelled Ukraine atomic plant

Bruce Crumley - Mar. 7th 2022 9:19 am PT @BDroneDJ

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In the wake of the Russian shelling of Ukraine’s enormous Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, contamination detection specialist US Nuclear Corp. says it is sending one of its specialized DroneRAD UAVs to Ukrainian authorities to help monitor the facility’s reactors for potential radiation leaks.

UK ponders drone monitoring of coastal nuclear plant cooling intake systems

Bruce Crumley - Oct. 25th 2021 4:33 am PT @BDroneDJ

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Authorities in the UK are examining a request to take a test UAV project live. It would involve extending experimental drone use monitoring coastal nuclear power plants for marine life that risks getting sucked into their cooling tubes to a real, increasingly troubling example of that in Scotland.

Smart drone to monitor radiated uranium sites in Central Asia

Bruce Crumley - Jun. 30th 2021 5:16 am PT @BDroneDJ

drones UAV surveying and mapping nuclear radiation

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said it will begin deploying a gamma ray-reading drone to monitor former uranium mining and processing sites in Central Asia. The airborne surveys will permit accurate analysis of the radioactive zones that human researchers have had to wade through until now.