Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Toshiba, the contractor in charge of the initial cleanup work, and the laboratory expect to sign a formal agreement to deploy a new technology that experts believe will yield three-dimensional images of the wrecked reactor cores, and...
Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
In recognition of the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Esri has created two interactive maps that the media can embed or share as part of anniversary coverage.
Thursday, June 20th, 2013
Mapping contamination in detail to be able to deal with it better: that’s the philosophy behind the innovative solutions developed by the Back End BG’s teams for the Fukushima region. Two cases in point: an underwater robot...
Friday, September 21st, 2012
In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, a grass roots group called Safecast managed to put together a map of real time, local radiation data using volunteers with open sourced geiger counters. Now Safecast, led by...
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
Japan’s Fukushima disaster was one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, rendering a large area of the country uninhabitable for the immediate future. The meltdown was triggered by last year’s earthquake and tsunami, but don’t go...
Thursday, June 14th, 2012
Investigations into the Japanese government's failure to disclose the spread of radioactive material from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant point to inaccurate maps and lack of sensor data for the lack of communication. The government...
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Many coastal Tohoku municipalities in Japan hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster and others affected by the Fukushima nuclear crisis are suffering from a severe shortage of civil engineers and other backup staff, according...
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
The system, named Kyoto University Radiation Mapping System or KURAMA, is ingeniously simple. First, equip buses with radiation detectors and GPS, and as they scour the city on their daily routes they can collect data from all...
