http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLdOkKAeROg Earlier this year Miles O’Brien and Xeni Jardin joined us in Japan to learn a bit about Safecast and joined us on a trip through Fukushima – I blogged about the day when it happened. They were working on a piece for PBS which aired in the US tonight. The full segment is viewable…
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bGeigie Hackerspace World Tour!
If you’ve checked out our maps recently you know that we have covered a lot of ground in Japan, but only scattered readings around the rest of the world. We think these global measurements are really important both to provide some context for the readings we’re taking in Japan and to build a baseline so…
A High School Student’s experience Safecasting
My name is Richard Zajac and I am a senior at a St. Louis, MO High School. I first learned about SafeCast when I began looking for information about the radiation levels in Japan in preparation for a visit filming a documentary. I soon discovered that SafeCast was the best source of this data, and…
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Safecast at Ars Electronica
Last month we were lucky enough to be invited to Linz, Austria to participate in the annual Ars Electronica festival. We were invited to talk about Safecast and show off some of the devices we’ve been using. Joi Ito, Pieter Franken and I attended and we displayed an iGeigie prototype and a working bGeigie. We…
Over 1,000,000
As of 3:27 PST today, there are 1,037,746 individual data points in the Safecast database. That’s over one million radiation readings we’ve taken with our bGeigie system since we started using it in April. This is an amazing milestone and the tireless volunteers who have been driving around with these devices deserve a world of…
Safecast + Knight Foundation
We’re very excited to announce that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation have made a contribution that will greatly help our development over the coming months. The Knight Foundation which believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged is the perfect fit our group up approach and we’re delighted…
Citizens Group Leader in Kashiwa Radiation Hotspot Quits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gtZIX1Pf5w The leader of a Citizens’ Group to Protect Children from Hotspot Radiation in Kashiwa city, Chiba, decided to suspend its activities. Mrs. Yuki Ohsaku, representative of the group evacuated recently to Kyushu after her two children started nosebleeding and other core members also are considering moving out of Kashiwa city. 10 members have already relocated. (Above video of Interview…
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Safecasting Seoul, Korea & Hong Kong, China
Is the radiation level in Japan higher, equal, or lower than in neighbouring countries to Japan that did not (yet) experience a Nuclear Disaster? I decided to find out, so I packed a bGeigie in my check-in luggage when leaving on a business trip to Seoul, Korea, and Hong Kong, China. After arriving at Incheon…
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Excessive Radiation Exposure to Tokyo Population on March 15
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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Safecasting Oshima Island
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…