Safecasting at 10,000 meters and 785km/hr

Recently I had a chance to travel to Boston to meet up with fellow Safecasters at the MIT media lab. As I’m now armed with a nice set of Geiger counters, I decided to measure the radiation during the flight. By doing this with the same equipment we use, we can get a good idea…

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Visiting Fukushima City (June 1, 2011)

[This is a guest written article, views expressed are the authors alone and may not be endorsed by Safecast] 1. Introduction On Wednesday, June 1, 2001,  I visited Nakate-san, the representative of “Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation”, in Fukushima City to hand two Geiger counters (International Medcom CRM-100 and Inspector Alert) provided by…

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Tsuruga and Yamada-machi

On 2011-06-12-13 we (Yuka Hayashi, a crew of DSM TV and I) visited Tsuruga for a company video shoot and measured with an Inspector at both the Mihama and the Genden nuclear powerplants. Hereby the readings and pictures. Date coordinates-1 coordinates-2 place air measurement ground (1cm)  measurement 12/06/2011 35°41’47.48″N 135°58’33.37″E Mihama 0.227 uSv/h 0.08 uSv/h 12/06/2011 35°44’54.28″N…

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Discover & Validate

Map by Prof. Hayakawa from Gunma University, graphics by Ms. Hagiwara I live in Abiko City in the north east of Chiba prefecture, only a stone’s throw from the border with Ibaraki prefecture. A few weeks ago, a concerned mother of our area’s day care facility showed me her Geiger counter, which showed elevated values…

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Farm readings in Hanawa near Shirakawa

Junko Kajino and I made our way from Chicago to Fukushima on 5/23 to begin five months of production on our documentary Uncanny Terrain, about organic farmers facing the nuclear crisis.  Along the way we stopped in Tokyo, with Pieter Frankel of Safecast supplied us with an Inspector Geiger counter and instructed us in its…

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Visiting Fukushima City (June 1, 2011)

1. Introduction On Wednesday, June 1, 2001,  I visited Nakate-san, the representative of “Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation”, in Fukushima City to hand two Geiger counters (International Medcom CRM-100 and Inspector Alert) provided by Safecast. This article is about the trip. 2. On Shinkansen I went to Fukushima by Shinkansen “Tsubasa” from Tokyo.…

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