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[jakeXT]

U.S. Drone May Be Used To Scout Damaged Reactors

TOKYO (Nikkei)--The U.S. military is considering sending its advanced Global Hawk unmanned aircraft to help Japan assess damage at a stricken nuclear power plant that has been rendered inaccessible by high levels of radiation.

The remotely piloted airplane has high-performance infrared sensors and surveillance equipment. Japan has requested U.S. assistance in collecting data at the reactors in order to draw up plans to contain the crisis.

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110317D16JFA19.htm



Yuli Andreyev, former head of the agency tasked with cleaning up after Chernobyl, told the Guardian that the Japanese had failed to grasp the scale of the disaster. He also said the authorities had to be willing to sacrifice nuclear response workers for the good of the greater public, and should not only be deploying a skeleton staff. "They don't know what to do," he said. "The personnel have been removed and those that remain are stretched."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/16/japan-nuclear-crisis-escalates

Maybe the Soviet model wasn't so bad at all....