The Fukushima Government has created a world wide map of radiation measurements powered by SAFECAST radiation measurements. Good news is that we’re working hard to expand our worldwide radiation map with Singapore, Holland, Belgium, Norway and Chernobyl. As reported in the Fukushima Mimpo Shinbun, on Sep. 8th, 2012 — Summary translation of the article :…
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SAFECAST x RADIEX 2012
Safecast at RADIEX2012 Safecast will be participating at RADIEX2012, Sep 24-26 in Tokyo. Titled “Radioactive Decontamination & Radioactive Waste Disposal International Forum”, this event will take place at the Science Museum in Kitanomaru-koen (near Takebashi Station). International Medcom Inc., a strong supporter of Safecast from the beginning, is generously allowing us to share their booth.…
TEPCO cheating on radiation levels by using "improved" monitoring posts
During a visit to Germany in November 2011, Kenichi Hasegawa, a resident of Iitate, Fukushima prefecture said that in March 2011 the Iitate Mayor had requested him and Professor Imanaka of Kyoto University to keep secret the extremely high radiation levels that they had measured. When Professor Kaneko of Keio University went to Iitate with…
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Q: Is it safe to come to Tokyo? What about other parts of Japan?
A: While we avoid advising people about the decision to come to Japan, all of us are very comfortable living and working in Tokyo, but quite a few people we know and respect made equally well-considered decisions to leave. Contamination is pretty much everywhere in various amounts, but outside of Fukushima and some nearby prefectures…
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Safecast office opening event
Last night we had our first “Hey Safecast team in Tokyo, come hang out at the new office!” event. It was exciting and awesome to get everyone in the same room and talk about some of the future plans. As you can tell from the last few posts it’s been a productive week to begin…
Is this the bGeigie Nano???
Another thing we just hacked together at the new Safecast offices this week. More info coming soon! Safecastの新事務所での今週の私達の取り組みのひとつです。詳細は追ってご紹介します。
bGeigie Stealth Prototype
Upon first inspection this might appear to be just another Medcom Inspector, but if you look a little closer [internal pics after the jump] you’ll see it’s got a few modifications. What we’ve basically done here is taking the guts of the bGeigie and put them inside the case of the Inspector, making it a…
Safecast has moved! Open house this weekend!
We’re very excited to have completed the move into our new offices in Shibuya (a short walk from Shibuya JR Station). We’re in the Loftwork building sharing a floor with Creative Commons Japan and the Japan wing of the MIT Media Lab upstairs from the wonderful FabCafe. Our previous hosts Tokyo Hackerspace have also moved…
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Safecast at the Citizen-Scientist International Symposium
On June 23rd and 24th I attended the Citizen-Scientist International Symposium held in Inawashiro, Fukushima along with a few other Safecast members. The symposium was entitled the “Scientific basis for investigating into health effects of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and for establishing required future measures” and drew experts from throughout…
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SAFECAST on Dutch National TV – June 25th
SAFECAST will be featured on Dutch National TV as part of a documentary on Fukushima presented by Jeroen Pauw. Broadcast is Monday, 25th June, 22:10 local time, Nederland 1. The program will be available for viewing on the internet after the broadcast. (in Dutch, of course)
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