As we announced last month, we have a Kickstarter running right now to celebrate the launch of our new bGeigie Raku, which is a much easier to build version of the bGeigie Nano with a handful of other improvements as well. We’ve included some fun reward levels like an exclusive challenge coin and special edition…
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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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Around 20 students from Singapore Management University visited Safecast’s offices in Tokyo as part of a business study trip to Japan. The stop at Safecast was in part to learn more about how Safecast, as a volunteer-centred organization with a focus on open citizen science, functions. The students were attentive, enthusiastic and asked great questions…
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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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Safecast’s bGeigie joined the action when Czech authorities, including the police and army, participated in the ZONA 2017 exercise at the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). The exercise simulated a radiation accident at Dukovany and was held to test protective measures and the Integrated Rescue System of the Vysočina Region and the South Moravian Region.…
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Safecast travelled to Taiwan for part of the Safecast Asia network kick-off, as well as citizen science radiation workshops and data gathering tours. Safecast was in Taiwan as part of the Asia Network Kick-off tour, and held two workshops. One was at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) near Taipei, and the second was held…
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Safecast was in Hong Kong for part of the Safecast Asia network kick-off, as well as for a citizen science radiation workshop and data gathering tours. Over 30 people, including children, some as young as eight, took part in the workshop that covered introduction to the basics of measuring radiation, what radiation is, how…
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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…
We wanted to explain a little more about what led us to the development and release of Solarcast and some of the challenges we faced along the way. With the deployment of our Pointcast network we realized that a recurring problem with placing sensors was access to both power and internet for the devices we…
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…