Safecast Report

PART 2.5: HEALTH

MARCH 2015

The concern about health damage from radiation exposure, and particularly the vulnerability of children, has made it the single most contentious issue surrounding the Fukushima disaster. Health concerns are the reason people were evacuated, and prompted…

PART 2.3: ENVIRONMENT and DECONTAMINATION

The radioactive releases to the environment from Fukushima Daiichi are unprecedented in many respects, but also comparable in many ways to releases from other accidents and from nuclear weapons testing. Radionuclides are both persistent in the environment…

PART 2.2: EVACUEES AND RETURNEES

Their lives are uprooted, and their grievances are immense and…

Part 2.1: Issues at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Powerplant (FDNPP)

Compared to 2011, the Fukushima…

PART 1: THE SAFECAST PROJECT UPDATE, MARCH 2015

Compiled by Pieter Franken (Japan ops) and Sean Bonner (Global ops)

The Safecast Project now spans numerous aspects of environmental measurement. To keep it simple, the key areas where we’re active today are:

PART 2.4: FOOD

Keeping contaminated food off the market is essential for minimizing internal exposures to radiation. This risk is chronic because cesium and other radionuclides remain in the environment for years — decades in many cases — usually migrating deeper into the soil, and even if the problem appear to be…