Drone used to map radioactive vault at former US weapons site

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A drone flew through hot air irradiated with the equivalent of about 500 X-rays every second – more than enough to kill a person – to map a vault at a former weapons site

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AI is about to wonder why organic forms were ever needed on this planet in the first place.

what is 500 xrays even supposed to mean?

Question: why the hell is there radiation equivalent of about 500 X-rays every second in the vault of a weapons site? One'd need talent to intentionally achieve that.

mapped a room of powder. don't tell the DEA.

Awesome. Use this also to inspect/monitor nuclear waste facilities where nuclear energy waste is stored. But that would bother investors, developers & politicians in their back pockets.

Sounds like something the UK should be pumping into our seas as was intended back in the 1970's

500 x-rays? Not great, not terrible

Pffffff

Nice work

Tautology: deal with radioactivity with immune, functional tools. Duh!

The question is why did we let this happen in the first place. nuclearwar

So we're celebrating the failed science of nuclear waste hidden but lingering in nature, in vaults of eventual doom ? And sexy drones.... Great, cheers.👏🏾

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