The exact impact of the radiation depended on whether it was raining when contaminated winds passed overhead. A lot of the radioactive strontium and plutonium particles released by Chernobyl ...

This involved the first ever use of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to measure gammas and neutrons at the site, as well as the first use of a fixed-wing drone for Chernobyl radiation mapping.

READ MORE: CHERNOBYL EXPLAINED: WHAT DOES CHERNOBYL LOOK LIKE NOW? How far did the radiation travel? The initial impacted areas were Ukraine, Belarus and West Russia, with some areas contaminated ...

They used the resulting data to create 3D maps and pinpoint radiation hotspots. Before mapping the Red Forest, the team assessed the village of Buriakivka: 13km away from the Chernobyl power plant ...

However, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the radiation exposure from artificial radioactivity in the ...

Radiation levels at Chernobyl are measured as “ambient dose ... result of interference—from a cyberattack. If you look at a map showing the places where the results had been increasing ...

A study reveals that dogs living near the Chernobyl reactor do not show nuclear mutations, pointing to other environmental ...

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British scientists have used drones to create the most comprehensive radiation maps ever of the fallout zone from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Red Forest, just 500 metres from the site of ...

Sophia Tintori A map of Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) where worms were collected and marked alongside each site’s radiation levels. “This doesn’t mean that Chernobyl is safe—it more ...