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Radiation Map of Fukushima – and Useful Links *Updated*

Update : additional link(s) as and when I find them…

 

I live in the Eastern outskirts of Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture, 33 miles due west of the nuclear power plants.

To say the last month and a bit has been a bit of a challenge would be an understatement. More on that in another post.

For now though, here’s a radiation map of Fukushima prefecture, created by a Japanese guy whom I don’t know, but will try and find out more about later, to see if he will keep updating this – all credit goes to the person for creating this, made from published government radiation data.

One of my work colleagues found this, so credit to him too for letting me know of its existance….

You can see that more radiation has been deposited in areas to the north/north-west of the power stations. Also, after being blown further in that direction, the winds appear to have then blown it back down in a south-westerly direction. This explains why Koriyama city has largely escaped having more radioactive material deposited on it, and why the readings there are lower than Fukushima city.

This resource here contains that map and also Google Earth KMZ files. It’s all in Japanese but Google Chrome does a nice job of translating the site : http://disaster.geogrid.org/

Very useful radiation monitoring information at : https://sites.google.com/site/radmonitor311/top_english#11

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3 comments to Radiation Map of Fukushima – and Useful Links *Updated*

  • Urban Jonsson

    Hello I used your links and digged little more and found this
    https://files.me.com/yoshi1977/7maz9d
    on this site
    http://disaster.geogrid.org/
    Seems to me they are using the same map with different radioactive scale.. Yours was up to 5 these are up to 23 microsieverts/hour

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    • Kevin Cave

      Urban, thanks.

      Yep I based my initial blog entry on the map my co-worker sent to me. The geogrid link is already there at the bottom of my post :)

      Regards.

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  • Urban Jonsson

    Sorry I discovered there is just the same maps, just different radioactive resolution. …

    Urban Jonsson
    Hello I used your links and digged little more and found this
    https://files.me.com/yoshi1977/7maz9d
    on this site
    http://disaster.geogrid.org/
    Seems to me they are using the same map with different radioactive scale.. Yours was up to 5 these are up to 23 microsieverts/hour
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