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.”…
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Safecast featured at the Singapore ArtScience Museum's Big Bang Data Exhibition
From May 21st, Safecast is featured at the Big Bang Data Exhibition at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Organised into eight chapters, Big Bang Data takes you on a journey of exploration though the intricate relationship that we share with data, as well as the meaning and implications of datafication for our future. Artworks on…
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Safecast Visits Washington DC
Last month, thanks to coordination and support from the NRDC and N*Squared, several of us were lucky enough to visit Washington DC during the week of the Nuclear Security Summit for a series of presentations and meetings about what we’ve been up to, what we’ve produced that people might make use of, and who we…
Chernobyl, 30 years ago
The Chernobyl Disaster happened April 26, 1986 – exactly 30 years ago today and until 2011 when disaster struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, it was the only level 7 nuclear event. Several Safecast volunteers have mapped out the Chernobyl site and surrounding cities which is still one of the most radioactive places on earth.…
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,…
Time Snapshots now on the Safecast Map!
One of the benefits of collecting several years worth of environmental data is we can look at different time frames to see how things change over time. We call these Snapshots, and they are very useful in places like Japan where the radiation levels have changed and are expected to continue changing over the coming…
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Safecast 5th Anniversary bGeigie Workshop – April 23-34 Tokyo
After a successful test drive around the Tokyo Bay area the day before, April 24th, 2011 was the first drive with the Safecast bGeigie to Fukushima. The bGeigie was the breakthrough that got us to collect over 43,000,000 radiation measurements in over 70 countries over the past 5 years. The bGeigie Nano Kit is the…
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THE SAFECAST CONFERENCE 2016 – #SCC2016 EVENT CALENDAR
March 2016 marks the 5th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and also marks Safecast’s 5th Anniversary. To commemorate this special occasion, the Safecast Conference 2016 will be held on Sunday, March 20th at our offices in Tokyo. Join to hear what we learned along our journey over the past 5 years,…
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Quick Bits: Feb 20
A few exciting bits this week at Safecast. Over on National Geographic, Ari Beser published “How Citizen Science Changed the Way Fukushima Radiation is Reported” detailing Safecast’s efforts and impact. This is a fantastic endorsement of the efforts and commitment of Safecast volunteers worldwide. We’ve also gotten news that Congressman Jason Hsu showed off his…
Safecast Air Prototypes
If you’ve been following along at home you know that at Safecast we’ve been thinking about measuring air quality for quite some time. More than once we’ve jumped in only to be disappointed with the results, pushing us back to square one. One of the key tenets at Safecast is that we must be able…