Above: The Safecast team with the new Pointcast realtime radiation monitor in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. While the bGeigie and mobile radiation monitoring have been the major focus of Safecast for some time, we have also steadily been building, testing, and deploying a fixed realtime radiation monitoring system which is the first to receive the designation“Pointcast.”…
Safecast Report Vol. 2 now available
Volume 2 of the Safecast Report is now available for download. Like Volume 1, issued last year, this report provides an update about developments related to the Safecast project as well as summaries of reports and research findings concerning the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP site, in the environment, for evacuees, for food,…
bGeigie at the International Aero-Gammaspectrometry Campaign 2015
Above: bGeigie Nano in front of the Czech team’s Mi-17 helicopter Note: Safecast is fortunate to have a small group of very active volunteers in the Czech Republic. The Safecast radiation map has a lot of data from the Czech Republic, almost all of it logged by Jan Helebrant and Lubomír Gryc, radioprotection professionals who work…
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Drive of the Month: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Chagan was a Soviet underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965. It left a huge lake-filled crater. Radiation levels surveyed at Lake Chagan are among the highest in the Safecast radiation database. A Safecast volunteer, who’d like to be identified simply as “Markus,” recently uploaded data from the Semipalatinsk…
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Video: "The Power of Privacy” at The Guardian online
Safecast is featured in Episode 4 of an excellent video series called “The Power of Privacy” at The Guardian online: The power of privacy (4/5): Open data: mapping the fallout from Fukushima
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bGeigie Nano Workshop in Taipei, Nov. 14-15, 2015
Joe Moross advising participants at an earlier Nano workshop in Taipei, in Oct. 2014. FabCafe Taipei will host its third bGeigie Nano workshop in Taipei on Saturday, November 14. Last years’s workshop, led by Safecaster Joe Moross, was a huge success, and Joe will be there again this time to guide participants through the process of…
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More droid trouble
Above: 77 new realtime radiation monitors made by JB Japan Brand were installed in Fukushima in March 2015 and taken offline weeks later. This unit, in front of Odaka Station in Minamisoma, has an “under maintenance ” notice posted on it. Back in December of 2012 we posted a two-part article which took a close…
Upcoming bGeigie Nano workshop in Taipei
FabCafe Taipei will host its second bGeigie Nano workshop in Taipei on Saturday, May 30. Last years’s workshop, led by Safecaster Joe Moross, was a huge success, and Joe will be there again this time to guide participants through the process of building and learning how to use a bGeigie Nano and upload data to…
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Drive of the month: Svalbard Islands
Safecaster Ben Lutch recently uploaded data from Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago far north of the arctic circle, about 1200km from the north pole itself, and home of the Global Seed Vault. Some readers will recall that we received data from Antarctica in Dec., 2013, so these recent uploads mean we now have data on our…
Upcoming bGeigie Nano Workshop in Tokyo
We’re pleased to announce an upcoming bGeigie Nano workshop in Tokyo during Golden Week, so you can build your own bGeigie mobile radiation detector and take it on your Golden Week holiday travels around Japan or the world! The bGeigie Nano is a unique Geiger counter designed by SAFECAST for logging radiation data that can…
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