Safecast Report 2017, Part 2.1 now available

The second installment of the 2017 Safecast Report is now available for download. Part 2.1: Situation Report — Issues at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Powerplant (FDNPP) is a 66-page A4-size print-quality pdf that provides a detailed description of conditions at the damaged powerplant. Sections are devoted to the overall plans for decomissioning, the spent fuel pools, contaminated…

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Data for Development

Safecast was happy to be asked by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) to contribute a case study about our project to their new publication, Case Studies on Data for Development. The case study collection is part of the OECD’s larger 2017 Development Co-operation Report: Data for Development. The authors note: With the unfolding…

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A Long Safecast Weekend

Above: Joe preps a drone for a pre-programmed flight in Tomioka. Safecast’s work involves so much technical knowledge that our online team discussions literally run 24 hours a day. Developing and maintaining the hardware and software side is very geeky work and occurs largely in the digital realm. But getting it out into the real…

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Safecast Report 2017, Part 1 now available

Part 1 of the Safecast Report 2017 is now available for download as a print-quality PDF. The report has grown in size, and in contrast with previous years, we are making it available in sections for easier download and reading. A combined version will also be available. Section 2: Situation Report – Intro and 2.1- Issues…

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The hottest drive: Safecasting the newly reopened Route 114 in Namie

Above: National Route 114 runs through the current exclusion zone in Namie. The area remains evacuated but the road was recently reopened for public use. National Route 114 in Namie was reopened to public access on Sept 20th of this year. The route, also known as the Tomioka Highway, is a primary thoroughfare which runs…

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New Safecast Kickstarter Campaign Launched!

Above: A prototype bGeigie Raku (left) pictured alongside a bGeigie Nano (right) Safecast just launched a new Kickstarter campaign to find development of the bGeigie Raku, our latest-generation bGeigie mobile radiation detector.  Kickstarter invited us to participate in their new Kickstarter Gold program, which just launched today, and brings together new proposals from iconic past…

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Our World Our Data: videos + presentations

Each year we at Safecast work to organize a public event where we can both discuss our current efforts as well as highlight others do work in the open / environmental data areas. In previous years this has taken the form of The Safecast Conference which we’ve hosted in Tokyo. For 2017 we wanted to do an event…

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Accident at Hanford

Above: Photo showing the 20ft x 20ft hole which resulted from the collapse of a PUREX storage tunnel at Hanford (Image: Hanford Emergency Information page) UPDATE, May 15, 2017: A Hanford emergency advisory issued today indicates that things are quieter at the plant overall, with most employees reporting for work as normal, except those affected by…

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Mount Juman forest fire in Namie

UPDATE, May 12, 2017: Namie City government reports that as of 3:05 pm on May 10th, the Mount Juman fire was no longer burning. A city official we contacted by phone said that about 50 hectares had been burned in all. Radiation monitoring posts detected no increase in radiation levels in residential areas, but the…

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Introducing Solarcast

What is SOLARCAST? Safecast has gained a tremendous amount of experience since starting our citizen-based environmental monitoring program in March, 2011. The learning curve has often been steep, but always rewarding. Conceived and designed primarily by OG Safecaster Ray Ozzie, our new Solarcast device combines everything we’ve learned deploying our bGeigie mobile radiation sensors, Pointcast fixed radiation sensors,…

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