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Robotic 3-D Imager to Brave Chernobyl

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Michael D. Wheeler

Deep inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northeastern Ukraine, the site of the worst nuclear meltdown in history, is a room filled with radioactive slag that has kept man and machine at bay for more than a decade. Now a team of researchers, led by Maynard Holliday of Lawrence Liver-more National Laboratory, has constructed a robot it hopes to send into the abandoned reactor. Onboard will be the latest in a digital three-dimensional imaging system that will assist the team as the robot -- dubbed Pioneer -- attempts to navigate through the maze of rooms deep inside the reactor. The...Read full article

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