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ExcessBLarg!
Sep 1, 2001
One of the interesting things that came about after Fukushima is Safecast, a project to build cheap radiation detectors and crowdsource radiation maps.

The project started, in part, over the frustration that folks living in Fukushima weren't getting straight answers from Tepco or the national government about how much radiation had leaked, and in particular, exactly what areas were unsafe. Once the project got underway, it was very well received with quite a level of local participation and support from the local government. Without equipment in the field, nobody really knew what was going on, and with equipment everyone could know. Quite an amazing accomplishment, albeit in the context of a horrible disaster.

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