Radioactive drone lands on roof of Japanese Prime Minister's office

The police said the amount of radiation was unlikely to harm humans, the press reported.

A remote-controlled aircraft carrying a very small amount of radiation was found on the roof of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office on April 22.

The amount of radiation is unlikely to harm humans, police said, according to media reports.

The Japanese Prime Minister's Office where the remote-controlled plane landed (Photo: Reuters)

NHK television said a bomb squad was dispatched to the scene and removed the drone, which had a small camera and a bottle of water labeled with a radioactive symbol.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said police are investigating the incident.

The incident occurred while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Indonesia to attend the Asian-African Summit.

It is unclear who piloted the plane that crashed into the roof of the Japanese Prime Minister's office and what its motive was. However, today, a Japanese court allowed the restart of a nuclear power plant in the southwest of the country, despite concerns about nuclear safety following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

The court ruling will give Abe the impetus to restart nuclear power projects to cut expensive fossil fuel imports.

The plane on the roof of the Japanese Prime Minister's office is covered with a blue tarpaulin (Photo: Reuters)

Aerial footage broadcast on television showed the drone covered with a cardboard box and then a blue tarpaulin.

NHK said an official at the Prime Minister's Office spotted the plane, which was about 50 centimeters in diameter. No one was injured in the incident.

Japan - a country famous for electronic devices and controlled robots - is making efforts to develop drone technology to compete with the US.

Before being covered with a tarpaulin, this remote-controlled plane was covered with cardboard (Photo: Reuters)

The Japanese government is also considering using the Fukushima nuclear power plant destroyed by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a testing ground for robots and drones.

A Japanese company is planning to mass-produce six-propeller remote-controlled aircraft that can survey radiation levels and aid the government's efforts to eliminate radiation, media reports said./

According to VOV.VN