Worldwide Radiation Monitoring Websites... Real Time, Independent, Official, and Historical

Global Radiation Monitoring Websites (update 10/4/11)

Many independent and government monitoring sites are designed to show real time radiation information.

This post was last updated on 10/4/11.  Please add any additional Radiation Monitoring Websites you may know of to the comments section.  I will review submissions and post the sources that appear reputable.

NORTH AMERICA

RadiationNetwork.com: independent, monitors ~35 locations in North America.  The map updates every minute.  For full functionality, buy their software.  Better yet, use home computer and an approved Geiger Counter to add your own automatically updating station to the Radiation Network Map

BlackCatSystems Radiation Detector Map: similar to RadiationNetwork.com but with a more user friendly map.  Fewer detectors than RadiationNetwork.com but servicing different locations.

USA, EPA, official monitoring sites: Now featuring an interactive map to view “Near-Real-Time” stationary air monitor data.  Note: The EPA has NOT been conducting significant Precipitation, Drinking Water, and Milk tests in the months since the Fukushima meltdowns.  Additionally, the results of EPA tests are not easily accessed, easy to read, or otherwise user friendly.  They could do a lot more and make it much more user friendly.

TaraTest.com: real time monitoring in Petaluma, CA, Ashland, OR, Anchorage, AK and Maui, HI.

USA, Santa Monica, West LA: independent source, real time, live video of geiger counter.

EUROPE

EURDEP (European Radiological Data Exchange Platform): Official Monitoring Stations (several hundred) showing radioactivity levels (map) across Europe. Must allow pop ups from EURDEP in your web browser, but the map is worth it.

Switzerland Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz: Monitors Switzerland with 63 locations, updated daily.

Germany Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz : 1800 monitoring stations across Germany, updated daily.

Austria Strahlenfrühwarnsystem Österreich: Official monitoring sites with 100 locations across Austria.

Russia Offical Monitoring Site: needs latest flash player to view.  Very slick map interface.  Why can’t the US EPA build us one of these?

Serbia Official Monitoring Sites: 15 sites, update every 30 minutes.

Slovenia, Official Monitoring Sites: Over 70 sites, updated regular, measurement in Nano Sievert

JAPAN

Japan’s Independent SafeCast.org: Largest community of independent monitoring sites with over 500,000 radiation data points across Japan.  The whole world needs a service like this!

Japan Instititue for Information Design: Impressive number of monitoring stations mapped in Google Earth and more.

Japan Official Prefectural: official prefectures monitoring sites, updated several times daily.

Hino, Tokyo, Japan: Independent source, real time. Mirror Site

Tokyo and Japan: 22 independent sources, shared via twitter, link to the data tables, updates at different intervals dependent on source (varies between minutes and hours)

Japan, Nuclear Safety Division Ministry of Education Cuture Sports Science and Technology: real time monitoring, awkward interface.

Kashiwazaki Kariwa Power Plant, Japan: seven monitoring stations, if you click on the monitoring data over the last five days is shown in diagram.

Greenpeace, Japan: Past data measured by Greenpeace, NOT UPDATED.

ASIA

Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong Observatory: Official monitoring site, hourly update of the radiation data of the 10 official radiation monitoring sites in Hong.

Russia Offical monitoring sites: needs latest flash player to view.  Very slick map interface.  Why can’t the US EPA build us one of these?

GLOBAL NUCLEAR REACTOR DATABASE

World Nuclear Organization Reactor Database

9/21/11: Typhoon Roke Passing Over Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Sites Now

The Fukushima nuclear power plants -- which suffered multiple core meltdowns and major radiation emissions after the March 11th earthquake/tsunami -- are currently being battered by Typhoon Roke.  The damaged nuclear plants are located on the coast just SE of the city of Fukushima visible on the map above.

Note that the storm already passed  over Tokyo as well.

The storm was forecast to cause serious flooding and moderate wind damage throughout much of Japan.  Over 1 million people were evacuated and there have been at least 4 deaths attributed to the storm already.  There is a legitimate concern that the storm could cause the badly damaged Building 4 at Fukushima to fall over, spilling a large spent fuel rod pool onto the open ground.


More coverage from RSOE EDIS:

Tropical Storm in Japan on Wednesday, 21 September, 2011 at 05:05 (05:05 AM) UTC.

Description

A powerful typhoon looming down on disaster-ravaged Japan has killed at least four people, authorities said Wednesday, less than a month after a vicious storm left 100 dead. More than a million people have been warned to leave their homes over fears that the torrential rains Typhoon Roke is expected to bring will cause widespread flooding. Four people have been found dead in central and western Japan, while two people are missing in Gifu prefecture, including a young boy who disappeared on his way home from primary school. Evacuation advisories have been issued to a total of 1.14 million people nationwide, according to broadcaster NHK. It was not clear how many had followed the advice, which falls short of mandatory evacuation orders. Auto giant Toyota said it was temporarily shutting 11 of its 15 Japanese plants, which lie in the path of the approaching storm. "The second (afternoon) shift is stopped. (It is) not resuming today. No decision has been made for tomorrow," company spokesman Dion Corbert said. The affected plants are all in Aichi prefecture in central Japan. Roke is expected to heap more misery on a country that has suffered badly under the yoke of nature this year. The huge earthquake and tsunami of March 11 left 20,000 people dead or missing and devastated hundreds of kilometres (miles) of coastline, destroying whole communities and wreaking billions of dollars of damage. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was sent into meltdown after its cooling systems were swamped by the waves, sending radiation into the air, sea and food chain in the planet's worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl. Earlier this month Typhoon Talas slammed into central Japan, killing around 100 people in the deadliest storm to hit the country for over 30 years. Heavy downpours caused flash flooding and massive landslides that swept away buildings and people. By Wednesday morning, Typhoon Roke was off the Kii Peninsula in central Wakayama prefecture. It was expected to make landfall in the Kanto area in the afternoon before moving northeast, possibly towards the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant where workers are still battling to control persistent radiation leaks. "The typhoon will move north at high speed," a Japan Meteorological Agency official told a news conference, warning of damage and impact on transportation systems. The typhoon has already brought torrential rain and some flooding, with TV footage showing residents walking through streets knee-deep in water. A number of expressways have been closed, while more than 200 flights are to be cancelled for Wednesday, according to NHK. In the city of Nagoya, a regional commercial hub located near the home of Toyota Motor, about 380,000 households remained under evacuation advisories, media reports said. Nagoya mayor Takashi Kawamura warned: "Please follow evacuation advisories as soon as possible in order to prevent people from falling victims."

 In the news...


Telegraph.co.uk
Typhoon Roke crashes into Japan

 

Washington Post (blog) - 1 hour ago

21, 2011 as powerful Typhoon Roke lashes central Japan with heavy rains and sustained winds of up to 100 mph (162 kph). (Anonymous - AP) Packing sustained ...

Japanese battle Typhoon Roke

Washington Post - 1 minute ago

Typhoon Roke slammed Japan Wednesday, bringing high winds, driving rain, flooding, landslides and fresh fears for the crippled nuclear power plant...

Typhoon Roke

Washington Post (blog) - Elizabeth Flock - 5 minutes ago

At Fukushima, where a nuclear plant suffered a meltdown in March, Roke dumped 8 inches of rain, and there were calls for more than a million people to be ...

Typhoon Roke on Course for Leaking Japan Reactor as 1 Million ...

www.bloomberg.com/.../typhoon-roke-hits-japan-on-course-for-lea... - Cached

1 day ago – Typhoon Roke brought evacuation orders and fears of floods to Nagoya city ... on a course toward the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.

Typhoon Roke on course for Fukushima nuclear plant ...

www.collapsenet.com/.../3668-typhoon-roke-on-course-for-fukushima-...

6 hours ago – CollapseNet Emergency Action Alert [September 20, 2011 - 9:00pm PST] Whoa! This baby is headed directly toward me! Residents here...

 

Category II-IV Typhoon Roke Clobbering Japan! One Million Evacuated! Fukushima In The Crosshairs!

More torrential rain.  More flooding.  More damaging winds.  And both Tokyo and Fukushima are in the crosshairs of massive Typhoon Roke.

Typhoon Roke has been graded Category IV but is expected (hopefully) to be a weaker Category II storm when it makes landfall. It is a fast storm, currently traveling 34knots/65kmph NNE (through a large swath of Japan) .

After March's earthquake/tsunami/meltdown Japan has seen several large storms this year with record rainfall and severe flooding.

Out hearts go out to the people of Japan, once again.

Current forecast from Japan Meteorological Agency:

Another forecast from RSOE EDIS Global Disaster Map:

 In the news...

One million flee as typhoon nears Japan

USA Today - 4 hours ago TOKYO (AP) – More than a million people in central Japan were urged to evacuate Tuesday as powerful Typhoon Roke approached, triggering floods that left two ...

A Giant Typhoon Is Headed for Japan's Ruined Fukushima Nuke Plant - Gizmodo

by Sam Biddle 6 hours ago – Although Fukushima's wrecked reactors aren't melting down any longer, the entire complex is clogged with extremely radioactive water.

Japan Typhoon Warnings | COLLAPSENET

As of Wednesday morning at 0900 (PDT) the storm is clearly on track to strike Fukushima. It may weaken to Tropical Storm but right now it's the equivalent of a Cat 3 hurricane and very wet. Immediate hazards are to the cooling pool with spent rods at the badly damaged Reactor #4 and the potential for dispersal of large amounts of radiation due to runoff. This will merit close watch throughout the day. -- MCR

Arnie Gundersen on CNN: Summarizes Fort Calhoun and Cooper Nuclear Flooding Situation

Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen has been THE authority on Fukushima, but until now has been relatively silent on the flooding of Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant in Nebraska.  Recently, he gave his take on the situation to CNN:

Wake The Fuk Up! AN AUSSIE GOES OFF ON THE FUKUSHIMA BULLSHIT!

If half of us got half as fired up as this lady is, we could solve all the world's problems.

Link to the Al Jazeera article: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/201161664828302638.html