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Radiex 2012 Conference: Focus on Decontamination in Japan
Published November 8, 2012 by
Dan
The Radiex Conference in Tokyo, in September, was successful at bringing people together around technologies for cleaning up and monitoring radioactive contamination in Japan. The conference was well attended.
I attended the show, made a couple of presentations, and worked with Safecast to promote the value of the radiation maps they have been creating since the Fukushima Daiichi event. Safecast has posted more about the conference on their website. My company, IMI-International Mecom continues to support the good work they are doing.
The first conference of its type, Radiex 2012 will certainly not be the last. It will take many years to deal with the problems created by the earthquake, tsunami, meldowns.
In addition to devices for measuring soil contamination, there are also a lot of devices for measuring radioactivity in food. The new Japanese standard requires less than 100 Bq/kg of contamination in food.