Shinzo Kimura was a scientist with the Research Institute under the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare, and he did a survey on the health effects on the citizens of Narodichi, Russia after the Chernobyl accident. Right after 3-11 the Ministry pressured him not to publish any of his data and not to provide any…
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This weekend Safecast volunteer Eiji Nishikawa spent some time on Oshima Island. This area was heavily devastated by the quake and tsunami impacting tourism which has been very difficult for the residents. On top of that, there were no available radiation readings for the island and locals were very concerned and assumed the worst. We’re…
Earlier this month we received our first measurements from inside the evacuation zone and talked about how they illustrated the point that “closer to the plant” doesn’t automatically mean higher readings. To illustrate that point even furthers, Safecast volunteers Akira Sugiyama and Tatsuhiko Kodama were able to take a bGeigie all the way across the…
At Safecast we have been happy to been driving with our own car for the past months. The most driven member of the Safecast Fleet is a 1999 Nissan Wingroad. Like many other Safecast cars, the color is bright red. 幸いにもここ数ヶ月、セーフキャストは自分たちの所有する車で測定することができるようになりました。1999年以来、日産ウィングロードが一番良く使われて来ましたが、この新しい車は、他のセーフキャストの車両と同じく真っ赤な色をしています。 福島でのセーフキャスティング ～岩城から郡山の途中で～
This weekend at the Los Angeles hackerspace CRASH Space, we’ll be holding a hackathon: …starting on Saturday at 5pm, CRASH and Safecast are hosting a 24 hour hackathon to rally up some LA volunteers and do Cool Things™ with the internets. The focus will primarily be on all of the web-related things that it takes…
If you’ve been following our measurements and discussions surrounding them, you know we’ve been saying that the decision to evacuate people in a set radius from the Fukushima Daiichi plant is flawed. Wind, weather, topography and many other factors ensure that radiation isn’t higher the closer you get to the plant, and lower further away,…
When we launched our new main map on the front page of maps.safecast.org we mentioned that was just the first step in an ongoing process aimed at providing better, more useful info. We’ve recently added another feature to it – data for each grid. If you click on any gird element you’ll now see information…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AogizW2vo20 Seiju Sugeno is an organic farmer in Towa, Nihonmatsu, 50 km from the failed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The Abukuma Mountains partly shielded his rice fields from contamination, but runoff is an ongoing threat. Chairman of the Fukushima Organic Farmers Network, Sugeno works aggressively to clean his land and prevent his crops from…
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) is the largest (Government affiliated) research organisation in Japan with over 4000 employees. They played a major role in promoting nuclear power, especially fast breeder reactors. On September 5 Professor Kaneko of Keio University mentioned in his tweets a conversation he had with his friend, Professor Kodama of Tokyo University who is organizing…
At Safecast.org, I pushed our team to use the CC0 public domain dedication for the data that we are collecting through our radiation measurements instead of a Creative Commons Attribution license, which would require by law that people give us attribution. The reason is that we must give people the flexibility to use the data…
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