Part 1 of 2. Part 2 is here. UPDATE: Weeks after this was written, on Aug. 22, 2023, PM Kishida announced that, weather permitting, the releases would begin two days later, on Aug.24. They did. As this is being written on August 2, 2023, no date has yet been announced for the start of the…
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By Andrew Rocchio In March of this year, I arrived in Japan to start my 3-month study-abroad journey at International Christian University in Mitaka, Tokyo. I am an environmental studies major at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and wanted to find an internship while I was abroad that connected to my studies. I…
As part of a visit to Japan, the Dutch Fintech association visited Safecast’s offices for a session on data and innovation. Throughout both the initial presentation by Azby Brown and the subsequent conversations, it was clear that there is an overlap between Safecast’s approach and that of many of the fintech companies taking part. For…
Safecast was recently visited by a group of French master’s students to learn more about our organization and approach, including how Safecast works to drive innovation and develop crowdsourced solutions. The group of students from Digital College in France are studying digital marketing, digital communication, social media, web marketing, project management, start-up management, e-commerce, digital…
A few days ago, Safecast reached a major milestone when our radiation measurement database reached 200 million data points. This database contains both mobile data collected using bGeigies and realtime data collected by our fixed systems. Our database has continued to grow so steadily over the past several years that, to be honest, we haven’t…
In a little over three months, the #bgeigies4ukraine project has accumulated more than 300,000 new radiation data points in Ukraine. We are proud of this notable achievement. The entire dataset can be examined on our map here. As we explained last July when we announced the project publicly, Safecast began to assemble a highly…
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Today we announce the “bGeigies4Ukraine” initiative #bgeigies4ukraine The reckless and dangerous actions of Russian troops at Ukrainian nuclear facilities, including at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CHNPP) and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), have caused fear and concern in Ukraine, in neighboring countries, and around the world. In response, Safecast, SaveDnipro, the Czech National…
The Safecast field trip with TIPS students took place on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 13:30-15:30. The event was held at the Safecast Office and FabCafe MTRL in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Safecast is an international volunteer-driven non-profit organization whose goal is to create useful, accessible, and granular environmental data. All Safecast data is published, free of…
Around this time last year, SAFECAST held a 16-hour global livestream event to mark our 10th anniversary and that of the March 2011 triple disaster in Japan — earthquake, tsunami, Fukushima NPP meltdowns. What a difference a year makes. The sense of emergency in Fukushima dissipated several years ago, having been supplanted by better understanding…
Yesterday, much of the world watched astonished, appalled, and terrified as Russian ground forces attacked the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in southern Ukraine, setting a building onsite ablaze. We had thought the armed occupation of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) a week prior on February 24th, and holding the plant’s operation crew hostage,…