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Open Source Radiation Monitoring in Japan

Akiba FreakLabs, Tokyo Hackerspace

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What Can You Learn from Fukushima

• Problem

– System failure due to extreme conditions

• Results

– Widespread contamination – Loss of trust – Possible end to nuclear program in Japan

• What can you learn from this?

– Nuclear facilities should work with citizens – Trust – Transparency – Include residents in monitoring

Contamination

• Radiation plume dispersion based on

weather

• Fallout distributed over at least half of

Japan

– Not every location had serious fallout

• Over time, radiation concentrated into

hotspots

• Contamination started getting into human

pathways

Current State - Post Fukushima

• Loss of trust in nuclear agency

– Nuclear projects on hold – Most nuclear facilities shut down – Residents pushing for nuclear free Japan

• Food supply likely contaminated

– Concentration in fruits/vegetables

• Decontamination much more difficult than thought

– Huge radioactive waste problem

• Large area of Japan completely decimated

– farming – real estate – population

bGeigie

bGeigie

bGeigie

bGeigie

bGeigie

bGeigie

bGeigie

• Hee hee hee

bGeigie

• https://github.com/freaklabs/bGeigie

nGeigie

nGeigie

nGeigie

nGeigie

Time Series Change

• Open data, publicly downloadable
• Already basis of academic research and

papers

nGeigie

• https://github.com/freaklabs/nGeigie
• http://radiation.yahoo.co.jp

Arashi – Weather Monitoring

Arashi

Arashi

• Joint Project through UNESCO
• Open weather monitoring
• https://github.com/freaklabs/Arashi

Thank You!

• A big thank you to the OSHW community!
• None of this would have been possible

without everybody’s help and contributions

• Questions?