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…
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All about the Safecast car
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～
Crash Space Hackathon This Weekend
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…
Safecasting inside the evacuation zone
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,…
Grid Map Improvements
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…
Sugeno fights for his Fukushima farm
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…
Who is in charge of decontamination?
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…
The legal and ethical reasoning behind using CC0 for Safecast data
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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Safecasting Mount Fuji
From August 25 through 28 I made a family vacation by car circling Mount Fuji staying at pensions by the Fuji 5 lakes and in the Hakone-area, basically locations in a circle around Mount Fuji. From the start from my home near Shimo-Kitazawa in Setagaya, Tokyo I mounted a Safecast bGeigie equipped with a MedCom…
Safecast Radiation Monitoring Seminar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRyYijbTKig At Tokyo Hacker Space on 6/24/11, members of Safecast present the goals, methods, and results of their ongoing volunteer project to independently measure and map contamination levels from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant fallout at hundreds of thousands of sites across Japan.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRyYijbTKig 2011年6月24日に東京ハッカースペースにてセーフキャストのメンバーによるセミナーが開かれました。ここでは、セーフキャストの目標、手法、ボランティアによるプロジェクトの状況などについて発表が行われました。ボランティアの手により、福島第一原発からの放射性降下物による汚染状態の測定および地図作成が行われています。日本国内に数百、数千の場所で測定が行われています。