The BBC has filmed Cabot Institute scientists at the University of Bristol who have successfully mapped radiation levels around Fukushima using a drone.

Dr Tom Scott and his team claim it is the safest way to monitor radiation levels after a tsunami triggered a nuclear disaster at Fukushima in 2011.

Watch the video on the BBC News website.

SOURCE: This news item is edited from BBC News "Drone helps Fukushima clean-up".

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