Anyone who has been following our Kickstarter project knows that the main goal was to deploy 100 sensors on the ground in Japan, and that anyone who donated $1000 or more would actually be sent their own geiger counter. We’re happy to announce that as of today both of these have started happening. We’ve been…
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Safecasting Tamagawa by bike
This is a guest post by Robin Scheibler — Steve and I met Sunday (June 5th) morning at 10am at the hackerspace. After quickly hacking a fix for the batteries of the brand new bGeigie-mini from Akiba, we set off on our bikes, direction of Tamagawa. We first went through Meguro-ku and stopped there to…
Hanawa farmers face uncertainty of low-level contamination
[This is a guest written article, views expressed are the authors alone and may not be endorsed by Safecast] Our documentary Uncanny Terrain, about organic farmers facing the nuclear crisis, begins in Hanawa, Fukushima, a mountain farming town 45 miles from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Hanawa was spared the worst of the…
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The Farmers of Hanawa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVnkS-kuZLY Our documentary Uncanny Terrain, about organic farmers facing the nuclear crisis, begins in Hanawa, Fukushima, a mountain farming town 45 miles from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Hanawa was spared the worst of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear fallout, and the farmers we’ve met mostly see the stigma of being from Fukushima…
Safecast Visits C-10
Last week several members of the Safecast team had the opportunity to visit The C10 Research and Education Foundation, one of the oldest citizen radiation monitoring groups in the world. Based in Massachusetts, near the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, the group has had a sensor network in place and being monitored for over 20 years.…
Discover & Validate
Map by Prof. Hayakawa from Gunma University, graphics by Ms. Hagiwara I live in Abiko City in the north east of Chiba prefecture, only a stone’s throw from the border with Ibaraki prefecture. A few weeks ago, a concerned mother of our area’s day care facility showed me her Geiger counter, which showed elevated values…
Farm readings in Hanawa near Shirakawa
Junko Kajino and I made our way from Chicago to Fukushima on 5/23 to begin five months of production on our documentary Uncanny Terrain, about organic farmers facing the nuclear crisis. Along the way we stopped in Tokyo, with Pieter Frankel of Safecast supplied us with an Inspector Geiger counter and instructed us in its…
Visiting Fukushima City (June 1, 2011)
1. Introduction On Wednesday, June 1, 2001, I visited Nakate-san, the representative of “Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation”, in Fukushima City to hand two Geiger counters (International Medcom CRM-100 and Inspector Alert) provided by Safecast. This article is about the trip. 2. On Shinkansen I went to Fukushima by Shinkansen “Tsubasa” from Tokyo.…
Safecasting Koriyama & Chiba
As you may have seen in the video we posted the other day we were looking into a hotspot in Chiba and some of the contamination there. We have a SAM 940 Radiation Isotope Identifier and some filters for our geiger counters so we’re able to do a little deeper investigation at times. What we…
Safecast Drives as of May 29
The team at Keio University’s ‘Scanning The Earth’ project as plotted every single data point that we’ve collected on our mobile drives onto one single map. They have close up and zoomed out JPGs of the entire thing, as well as a Google Earth KMZ file that you can download and explore on your own…