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People should check out Safecast, which is a citizen-led open data network for monitoring and publishing radiation readings, including an open API: https://blo
by Asparagirl 8y ago
People should check out Safecast, which is a citizen-led open data network for monitoring and publishing radiation readings, including an open API:
https://blog.safecast.org/ https://blog.safecast.org/
They're using low-cost open hardware, including Arduino:
https://github.com/Safecast/General/wiki/Safecast-Devices https://github.com/Safecast/General/wiki/Safecast-Devices
Here's their latest heatmap (well, radiation map) for Japan, centered on the Fukushima area:
https://safecast.org/tilemap/?y=37.14&x=140.67&z=8&l=0&m=0 https://safecast.org/tilemap/?y=37.14&x=140.67&z=8&l=0&m=0
- Asparagirl 8y agoThey also got volunteers to take radiation readings in and around the Santa Susanna Mountains near Los Angeles, to verify that radioactive waste from an old reactor meltdown there was not kicked up during the recent wildfires. (It was not, luckily.) https://safecast.org/tilemap/?y=34.16&x=-118.735&z=11&l=0&m=0 https://safecast.org/tilemap/?y=34.16&x=-118.735&z=11&l=0&m=...
- acidburnNSA 8y agoDo you know how they're communicating the expected health effects of dose rates like these? For instance the yellow is 4 uSv/hr, roughly 10x a normal dose rate in the USA.
- Asparagirl 8y agoI don't know that, I'm sorry, but you can e-mail them or Tweet them and find out.