With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation …read more
Source: [Hackaday](https://hackaday.com/2026/08/13/the-chernobyl-npp-and-forty-years-of-robots-for-high-radiation-environments/)