Safecast was formed in reaction to the Fukushima Nuclear Powerplant Disaster, which was caused by the magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. Specifically, our project was begun because of the lack of publicly available data regarding the accident’s impacts and the condition of the nuclear reactors themselves in the days and weeks following the start…
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