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I would like to see this done for Chernobyl.



There's Streetview in Pripyat [1] but not in the Nuclear plant itself apart from a handful of images [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4065351,30.0580859,2a,60y,35...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3894109,30.0990984,3a,75y,16...


Well, I would like to see directly into the Nuclear plant itself please.


Probably not feasible as the radiation fries any circuit getting close. They tried to get a camera in many times, but never succeeded I think.


Not sure i'd be volunteering to put a tripod down all over the place!


Could probably be done with some sort of drone rig.


I think it would depend what sort of penetration you're after.

It was not possible to work with robots in/around the reactor in the immediate aftermath of the accident -- the robots would fail due to exposure to the radiation. It's quite possible that technology still hasn't advanced far enough to allow for the in-depth exploration that would be required to achieve anything like the linked example.

I'd be curious to know if anyone knows more about recent attempts and the state of the art of hardening robots, drones, computers, etc. against radiation.




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