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Since the beginning of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the authorities have consistently appeared to underestimate both the risks and extent of radioactive contamination. We have come to Fukushima to bear witness to the impacts of this crisis and to provide some independent insight into the resulting radioactive contamination.
By providing honest, transparent and independent analysis of the threats to public health, we aim to provide an alternative to the often contradictory information released by nuclear regulators in the weeks since the Fukushima disaster began unfolding.
We will be in the Fukushima area to investigate and document the extent of the radioactive contamination and to bear witness to the imapcts that the people of Japan are subjected to because if the radiation.
Monitoring results - Map
March 2012 Measurements:
View Radiation testing Fukushima March 2012 in a larger map
December 2011 measurements:
View Radiation measurements Fukushima - Dec 2011 in a larger map
Previous measurements:
View Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team in a larger map
Monitoring results - Data
We're posting raw data from our field teams here as we can. Our team's priority is updating the map (above), and informing local communities, so there may be delays in publishing the raw data. Our intention is to publish spreadsheets for all our monitoring work (though some may have to be published after the end of field work for logistical reasons). These will contain the same information as in the map. By posting these spreadsheets, we hope to make it easier for people/institutions who want to use our data as part of their own research efforts. (By combining it with government data for, example, or using it in ways we have not imagined.)
Use of this data
This data is released under an Open Data Commons Attribution license. Please DO: Re-publish, mash-up, re-mix, share and create new works from this data. Please DO: Cite us as the source and link to this page. Please DO NOT: Imply that Greenpeace endorses your product or interpretation (we're only an original data source).
Spreadsheets
Team 1 - Gamma spectrometer output, 04 April 2011 (xls)
Team 2 - Field log, 04 April 2011 (xls)
Team 2 - Field log, 07 April 2011 (xls)
Food Testing results 04 - 08 April 2011 (xls)
Marine testing preliminary results, published 12 May 2011 (xls)
Marine testing lab results 1, published 25 May 2011 (pdf)
Marine testing lab results 2, published 25 May 2011 (pdf)
Marine testing lab results 3, published 09 August 2011 (pdf), (more info)
Detailed Demands to the Japanese Government, August 2011 (pdf)
Letter to National Government, August 2011 (pdf)
Fukushima/Watari/Onami results, December 2011 (xls)
The latest updates
Blog entry by Jan Haverkamp | May 16, 2012
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Last week, the inevitable finally happened. The company responsible for the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, has been nationalised. Japan’s trade and industry minister Yukio Edano announced a de...
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Blog entry by Justin McKeating | May 4, 2012
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With tomorrow’s scheduled shutdown of Japan’s Tomari nuclear power plant the country will be free from nuclear power for the first time since 1966. Can it seize this historic opportunity? Here at Greenpeace we believe it can.
All of...
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Press release | April 14, 2012 at 7:35
Tokyo, Japan, April 14, 2012 - Greenpeace today protested the Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano’s visit to Fukui Prefecture, slamming the Government’s push to bring two reactors at the Ohi nuclear power plant back online...
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Blog entry by Justin McKeating | March 28, 2012
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Fifty-three reactors down, one to go: Japan may have a nuclear-free summer
Japan is almost completely free of nuclear power now, after the shutdown on March 26, 2012 of the Number 6 reactor at the country’s Kashiwasaki-Kariwa...
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Blog entry by Mareike Britten | March 12, 2012
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More than 50 organisations and individuals from around the world have joined forces with Greenpeace and called for investments in safe, renewable energy in order to end the threat of nuclear power. That message is in the form of an ...
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