Category Archives: Fukushima

Non Profit Group Safecast Crowdsources Radiation Data in Japan

Posted ago by koholanui

Click here for video This PBS News Story covers Safecast, an organization mapping radiation data levels in Japan and Beyond, and explains what their mission is.  Click here for video  Safecast is deserving of support in their important work.  We …

Safecast Drives

Posted ago by paulo

List of all Safecast Drives 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 …

Safecast and Keio University Publish Data

Posted ago by koholanui

Safecast with Keio University have been collecting and mapping data from a number of data collecting excursions. Here is a list of the excursions (drives) and the maps generated from the collected data. Share on Facebook

Live Webcam at Fukushima Daiichi

Posted ago by koholanui

Tepco has installed a live webcam with a view of the reactor complex. View live webcam here. Share on Facebook

Angry Parents…

Posted ago by koholanui

This New York Times article by Hiroko Tabuchi describes the anguish of the parents of Fukushima City, whose children are going to contaminated schools. As I have said before, it is hard to see a happy ending to this story. …

Highest Radiation Levels Yet at Unit 1, or Instrument Malfunction?

Posted ago by koholanui

This graph or radiation readings at Unit #1 has been coming to us from various sources attributed to information from Tepco. There is a question as to whether the sensors are malfunctioning. If correct, these levels are extremely high and …

Multiple Holes in Reactor 2 Containment?

Posted ago by koholanui

So says the Mainichi Shinbun reporters who must be reading the report submitted by TEPCO on May 23 and released on May 24 according to this story. Share on Facebook

Tepco confirms #1,2,3 reactors melted down

Posted ago by koholanui

This article on NHK confirms Tokyo Electric Power’s assessment that all three reactors melted to various degrees fairly soon after the earthquake. Other reports from reputable sources say the cooling systems were damaged by the earthquake and that the tsunami …

Tour of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Posted ago by koholanui

  Tepco released this footage of work progress inside the plant following earthquake, tsunami, meltdown of reactors.   Share on Facebook

Measurement experiment

Posted ago by paulo

Pieter and Kalin of Safecast Japan spent some time last weekend analyzing the fallout that settled at a hot spot in Chiba, close to Tokyo. It appears that a rain fell as particulates from Fukushima Daichi passed over the neighborhood. …