Officials in Nevada are piloting a program to use fixed winged drones to sniff out radiation from a nuclear accident similar to the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. The use of these unmanned aircraft will greatly reduce the risk to officials who are called upon to test for radiation. This team has traditionally used Bell helicopters and Beechcraft airplanes for monitoring radiation contamination, but the drones should be much cheaper and less risky to deploy.
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