Want to get your own data about radiation (nuclear fallout). There are several official and independent monitoring sites.
This blog post will be continually updated. 66th update: March 09 2022. Please help to identify new radiation monitoring sites. Thank you.
Simple Radiation Dose Calculator: allows to estimate exposer to radiation, a more detailed one can be found at EPA (USA)
Radiation Network, USA: independent, monitors currently 14 locations in the USA – three around Seattle, one in California, update every minute
USA, EPA, official monitoring sites: Now with a new interactive site to view the collected data: http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-data-map.html. You can also create an user account to view data from all their 100 air radiation monitoring stations across the US. Now also with a customer satisfaction survey!
USA, Santa Monica, West LA: indpendent source, realtime, live stream video of geiger counter via ustream
Hawaii, USA: EPA monitoring data, realtime updated with approximate 1 hour delay
Seattle, Richland,Spokane,Tumwater, USA: updated daily
Examples of Nuclear Fallouts and Spread:
May 1986 Radiation Spread Chernobyl:
Nuclear Fallout from Fukushima, Japan: see Radiation Effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Global Community Monitoring Site uRADMonitor: Privately owned detectors across the Globe
Ukraine / Belarus: Radiation Measuring Sites across the two countries – real time data
Switzerland Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz: Monitors Switzerland with 63 locations across at different hightes, updated daily.
Germany Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz : 1800 monitoring stations across Germany, updated every 24 hrs
Garching, Munich, Germany: indpendent source, realtime
Russia Offical monitoring sites: needs latest flash player to view (Link submitted by: http)://ausbildung.klausbuechi.de/?p=610
Austria Strahlenfrühwarnsystem Österreich: Official monitoring sites with 100 locations across Austria
Serbia Official Monitoring Sites: 15 sites, update every 30 minutes
Slovenia, Official Monitoring Sites: Over 70 sites, updated regualar, measurement in Nanosievert
Serbia, SRBATOM: see Latest Public Announcement
EURDEP (European Radiological Data Exchange Platform): Official Monitoring Stations (several hundred) showing radiactivity levels (map) across Europe. (Link submitted by Fred: more details on this exchange platform see comment from Fred in comment section of this post)
Japan: safecast.com: Largest community of independant monitoring sites with over 500 000 radiation data points across Japan.
Japan: Impressive number of monitoring stations visualized by Japanese Institute for Information Design. Also available as a list and in google earth. Updated regularly.
Japan: official prefectures monitoring sites, update several times per day, multi language support, graphical historical representation
Tokyo, Japan : independent sources, realtime and Mirror Site
Tokyo and Japan: 22 indpendent sources, shared via twitter, link to the data tables, updates at different intervals dependent on source (varies between minutes and hours)
Further Sources, Japan plus 1 in Philippines: indpendent sources across Japan are continously coming now online. More and more crowd sourced readings available. Additional sources provided by Ryan and Susan in the Comment Section of this post. Thank you. Other independent source: Follow on Twitter;
Japan: in Japanese, over 50 data points, can someone give more detail on update frequency and origion of data ?
Japan Map: Showing radiation levels across region and where the data is originated . Article at Science Insider.
Indpendent Sources, Japan: Hokkaido, Fukushima, Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka
Japan, Nuclear Safety Division Ministry of Education Cluture Sports Science and Technology
Disaster Prevention Network for Nuclear Environment: realtime monitoring, or see google interactive map (The Wall Street Journal)
Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan: Facebook Page, independent source, updated at different intervals
Tokyo Radioactive NOW （東京の放射線測定) on Facebook
Ibaraki, Japan: independent source, 72 km south of Fukushima Nuclear Plant , updated daily
Onagawa, Nuclear Power Plant, Japan: no guidance on update frequency, please advise
Fukushima and other Towns in Japan: Tweets on radiation level several times per hour for Aizu-wakamatsu, Minami-Aizu-cho, Minami-soma, Fukushima, Shirakawa, Koriyama, Iwaki
Kashiwazaki Kariwa Power Plant, Japan: seven monitoring stations, if you click on the monitoring data over the last five days is shown in diagram, updates every 30 minutes ? (Link submitted by Reinhard – see blog post comment section)
Tepco Radiation data Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant : Owner of the Nuclear Power Plant, updated several times per day
Gesellschaft für Anlagen u. Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) on radiation emissions from Nuclear Plants in Japan (Fukushima, Onagawa and Tokai): official site, updated at different intervals
Tokyo, Japan: independent source, update in average every 30 minutes (Link submitted by Dominik Ratzinger, http://ratzingeronline.de/)
Greenpeace, Japan: Past data measured by Greenpeace, no regular update
Currenlty offline: Tokyo, Japan: indpendent source, realtime, live stream video of geiger counter via ustream
Map of monitoring stations, Japan: 47 official monitoring sites across Japan. Daily upated on situation at https://www.naz.ch/de/aktuell/index.html
Radiation Visualisation, Japan: used data from existing official monitoring sites in Japan to visualize the amount of emitted radiation.
Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong Observatory: Official monitoring site, hourly update of the radiation data of the 10 official radiation monitoring sites in Hong.
Hong Kong, China: Official monitoring site with 10 radiation monitoring stations across the territory of Hong Kong (incl. Islands), updated daily
World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC) : retrieval via ftp, no information on update frequency
Radiation Nuclear Fallout Volunteer Support Online Network: Connecting people globally who want to support or are supporting during this crisis, such as sharing radiation data or what to do when nuclear fallout comes to their community or help inform people who have no access to internet and to radiation data, etc…. Submitted by Network
General Overview of Effects of radiation contamination:
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization
Advise during nuclear fallout in English and Japanese: no official document, can someone with expert knowledge confirm advise given.
Information was compiled from the following books in German by a reader of this post: Thank you.
Strohm, H. (1986): Was Sie nach der Reaktorkatastrophe wissen müssen. Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins.
v.Lichtenfels, K.L. (2005): Lexikon des Überlebens. Handbuch für Krisenzeiten. Köln: Anaconda.
World Nuclear Organisaton Reactor Database: currently 450 nuclear power plant, and 55 in construction.
If you know of other radiation or radioactive tracking or monitoring sites that publish daily or more frequently data on their internetsites please leave a comment or send me an email at petepalme@gmail.com. Thank you.
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March 14, 2011 at 2:00 pm |
Messstationen Radioaktivität Deutschland
http://odlinfo.bfs.de/
http://www.bfs.de/de/ion/papiere/schauinsland.html
Hintergründe, Links:
http://ausbildung.klausbuechi.de/?p=610
March 14, 2011 at 3:12 pm |
Vielen Dank.
March 26, 2011 at 12:11 pm |
Measurements taken in Germany＞Berlin
http://strahlenbelastung.wo-wann-wer.de/index.php?v_ort=Berlin
March 14, 2011 at 8:28 pm |
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March 15, 2011 at 12:26 am |
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March 15, 2011 at 9:00 am |
Russland, Messstationen
http://www.russianatom.ru/
March 15, 2011 at 12:05 pm |
Hallo, hier nochmal ein Geigerzähler Liveticker mit Erläuterungen:
http://blogfnk.de/#/?p=261
March 15, 2011 at 12:30 pm |
Vielen Dank für den Hinweis.
March 15, 2011 at 10:18 pm |
Is this other live geiger data from Japan / Tokyo shared via twitter ?
http://www.geocities.jp/iinnaajjoobb/ojs.html
It is in Japanese, could someone translate this ? Thank you.
March 23, 2011 at 2:12 pm |
Translations:
-Go to Google Translator
– Select source and target language
– Copy and paste text in the source text box
– Enjoy the result
Note: Translations are not perfect but ok to understand (mostly) the core of the original content
March 16, 2011 at 8:53 am |
Generic auto-translation, at least something for a start
http://bit.ly/e0aEYI
March 17, 2011 at 12:16 am |
Thank you.
March 16, 2011 at 10:34 pm |
http://www.k4.dion.ne.jp/~ngtl-rad/
Von den Reaktoren Fukushima I, Messung in cpm, mit Langzeitdiagramm, wenn man ganz links auf die Reaktornummer klickt.
March 17, 2011 at 12:18 am |
Vielen Dank Reinhard.
March 17, 2011 at 1:01 am
Kannst du diese Seite einordnen, ist das eine offizielle Seite?
Leider kann ich kein Japanisch.
March 17, 2011 at 5:07 am
Ich habe gelernt, dass es hier NICHT ums Fukushima I-AKW geht, sondern ums AKW Kashiwazaki Kariwa
March 17, 2011 at 6:10 am |
wow, wish they had that kind of transparency for Fukushima plant area
March 19, 2011 at 8:30 am |
You can install a firefox addon called rikaichan. then you can just scroll over japanese words and get a translation of the word. by doing this, you can get a rough overview on what the text is about.
March 19, 2011 at 9:09 am
Thank you Susanne.
March 17, 2011 at 10:19 am |
Japan Disaster Prevention network (you already have) but would be better to link here instead (your link is the subset for Ibaraki prefecture), lists maximums by prefecture and allows you to drill down (except for the two most relevant prefectures, which are either still without power or conspicuously not reporting)
http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/
March 17, 2011 at 10:28 am |
Another tip: if you want station historical graphs (or a mobile friendly site), also from the same provider, Japan Nuclear Safety Technology Center:
http://www.bousai.ne.jp/mob/index2.php?lang=en
March 17, 2011 at 2:33 pm |
Here’s a website with data from Serbia. It updates every 30 minutes.
http://www.ekoplan.gov.rs/src/dodaci/radijacija/index.php
March 17, 2011 at 3:17 pm |
Thanks so much Siobhán.
March 18, 2011 at 3:31 pm |
EURDEP (European Radiological Data Exchange Platform) at
http://eurdep.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ gathers radiological monitoring data from 4200 measuring stations of 33 European countries and shows them on an interactive map.
Direct link for the map:
http://eurdeppub.jrc.ec.europa.eu/eurdeppub/home.aspx#
Calling the link at the home page for this map will give additional popup informations, how the measuring values are collected.
Fred
March 18, 2011 at 3:34 pm |
Thank you very much for your support, Freed
March 20, 2011 at 7:32 pm |
different map view of some of the same gov provided readings:
http://www.stubbytour.com/nuc/index_en.asp
(very decent view, with conversions from nGy/h to mSv/h/y displayed)
March 20, 2011 at 7:43 pm |
clicking the “source” links on that page lead to a better map+table for individual prefectures… same data from Disaster Prevention Network, but presented much better (on the non-english visual pages)
example: (ibaraki) – http://www.bousai.ne.jp/vis/jichitai/ibaraki/index.html
March 20, 2011 at 10:50 pm |
http://www.rdtn.org/
Another overview of some people measuring radioactivity in Japan, results shown on a map
March 21, 2011 at 11:36 am |
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health, Shinjuku, Tokyo (English, Japanese, update every hour)
http://113.35.73.180/monitoring/index.html
http://www.denphone.com/denphone-tokyo-office-geiger-counter
Website in Azabujuban, Tokyo (Denphone Tokyo Office Geiger Counter)
The units are uRoetgens per hour. An exposure of about 500 R in 5 hours is lethal for humans. A typical exposure of normal background radiation for a human is 200 mR per year or 23 μR per hour.
http://thinrope.net/gamma/
Website based in Minato, Tokyo, values in µSv/h
April 8, 2011 at 9:30 pm
http://jciv.iidj.net/map/
Overview of measurements from Japan, in JAPANESE, by the Institute for Information Design Japan
April 12, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Thank you Susanne for sharing this link.
August 14, 2011 at 8:49 am
The Safecast Map depicts over 500,000 radiation data points collected by the Safecast team throughout Japan.http://maps.safecast.org/
March 22, 2011 at 11:52 am |
Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Yamagata, Miyagi, data from mobile monitoring posts setup by the Prefectural Offices (Local Council / Local Government) in the areas
Graphics updated two times per day
http://fleep.com/earthquake/
March 26, 2011 at 12:10 pm |
Tsubaka (Ibaraki Province, Japan): Measurements of radioactivity
http://rcwww.kek.jp/norm/index-e.html
Japanese Measurements on Twitter by Ryugo Hayano (Physics Department Chair, Tokyo), mostyl Japanese, somtimes English tweets:
April 13, 2011 at 8:10 am |
Measurements by Greenpeace in the vicinity of the Fukushima plant:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=216097317933419817421.00049f79dd8efb50bf317&ll=37.62946,140.581055&spn=0.761327,1.647949&z=9&source=embed
June 6, 2011 at 8:52 am |
Some more Japanese measurements, maps where you can click on the region you are interested in:
http://atmc.jp/
http://tinyurl.com/4zp3zw8
http://tinyurl.com/3tkxpxf
March 20, 2011 at 10:52 pm |
I finally found a pdf of the Japanese Government with advise on what to do when there is FALLOUT:
http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/
March 24, 2011 at 8:31 am |
Information on decontamination, iodine and other things
http://www.nirs.go.jp/ENG/index.html
May 20, 2011 at 9:39 am |
Environmental Radioactivity and Health, Information on Food and Food supplements
English:
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n04.shtml
http://web.me.com/mr21/iv-therapy/Radiation_English.html
日本語
http://www.iv-therapy.jp/index.html
September 5, 2011 at 7:09 pm
The orthomolecular post is excellent.
May 22, 2011 at 1:53 pm |
More information on radiation, provided by the national institute for radiation science, Japan.
English: http://www.nirs.go.jp/ENG/
日本語 http://www.nirs.go.jp/information/press/2005/03_24.shtml
September 5, 2011 at 7:01 pm
I read their radiation info and it’s all Japanese apologist “nothing bad is going to happen!” material. Much of it is dated back to March and early April. The irony is that the acronym for the group – NIRS – is the same as Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS.org), the cutting-edge anti-nuclear organization here in the states.
March 20, 2011 at 10:53 pm |
And a map with the actual WIND situation in japan:
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/amedas/205.html?elementCode=1
March 21, 2011 at 8:45 am |
another project to attempt to aggregate independent data, not displaying yet… just collecting sources at this time…
http://www.geigercrowd.net/
March 21, 2011 at 8:48 am |
this existing data feed service also launched a call for JP data from it’s userbase (existing participants included already in the previously commented RDTN project):
http://community.pachube.com/node/608
April 4, 2011 at 10:53 am |
http://japan.failedrobot.com/
This map visualises crowd-sourced geiger counter readings from across Japan. It has a link on the parachube community on its site and there s an explanation how to create such maps.
The number of locations will fluctuate from time-to-time due to the validity of the data coming in (sometimes the feeds freeze or report inconsistent data). There are approximately 185 feeds from the official Japanese Government source: MEXT and 20 from other sources such as the Tokyo hackspace, concerned individuals, universities, local councils.
March 21, 2011 at 11:57 am |
Commission de Recherche et d’Information Indépendantes sur la Radioactivité
http://www.criirad.org/
Click on “Accidents nucléaires au Japon: dossier spécial” to see measurements of food such as spinach (épinard)
Information is in French only
March 22, 2011 at 11:46 am |
Another French website, IRSN Institute de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire. They promise to soon be able to release a report in English and Japanese. They do rad plume simulations and were
http://www.irsn.fr/EN/Pages/home.aspx
March 21, 2011 at 10:07 pm |
Hi! Great list!
I put a website together to easily access
>>> Current Radiation Levels <<<
all over more the world easily accessible, check it out:
http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/news/
The shortlink is: http://wp.me/PuwO9-9D
I'm not much of a social media guy, so any help getting that link out is appreciated.
Looks like I got what you got (except for Ireland, perhaps?), anyhow, as far as Europe goes, it's all covered under EURDEP anyhow. Great list!
Wish we will find monitors online in the Middle East, Africa and South America too.
Warmly,
Michaël V.B.
March 21, 2011 at 10:09 pm |
(same comment post, typo removed):
Hi! Great list!
I put a website together to easily access
>>> Current Radiation Levels <<<
all over more the world, check it out:
http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/news/
The shortlink is: http://wp.me/PuwO9-9D
I'm not much of a social media guy, so any help getting that link out is appreciated.
Looks like I got what you got (except for Ireland, perhaps?), anyhow, as far as Europe goes, it's all covered under EURDEP anyhow. Great list!
Wish we will find monitors online in the Middle East, Africa and South America too.
Warmly,
Michaël V.B.
March 21, 2011 at 11:53 pm |
Thank you Michael
March 22, 2011 at 1:48 pm |
Data on contamination of tap water in Japan, provided by MEXT, Ministery od Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. You can click on the prefecture and see the graphs
http://www.mext.go.jp/
June 29, 2011 at 2:01 pm |
June 29th 2011
Thanks.
does the EURDEP map still work?
http://eurdeppub.jrc.ec.europa.eu/eurdeppub/home.aspx#
feedback appreciated, thanks again.
sg
August 15, 2011 at 8:14 am |
Realtime monitoring from the US: http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
August 25, 2011 at 7:03 pm |
oh relay thanks for your post
September 5, 2011 at 2:23 pm |
Realtime monitoring, US:
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/FT%20Smith-AR-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
September 5, 2011 at 6:51 pm |
Check also with safecast.com. They have been distributing radiation monitors in Japan that they’ve been manufacturing themselves (only way to guarantee high quality testing) and compiling the data. Interview with Sean Bonner of Safecast on Nuclear Hotseat Podcast of August 30, 2011. Weekly podcast with nuclear news, interviews, holistic healing tips and activist opportunities available on iTunes, at http://www.NuclearHotseat.com, or on the Facebook Nuclear Hotseat group page. The interview covers the history of the group and his recent trip to Japan, where he distributed meters while taking readings in the north.
September 18, 2011 at 10:23 pm |
best news…
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November 12, 2011 at 12:00 pm |
Why is the european site down those days when there are a little alert of raised levels of iodine 131 ??
December 31, 2011 at 11:58 am |
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