{"id":1436,"date":"2011-10-21T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T06:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2011-10-24T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T03:01:42","slug":"radiation-map-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/radiation-map-of-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiation map of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese government has published online map data about radiation levels in Eastern Japan. You can zoom in and out, scroll around and select data from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Background radiation in microsievert per hour<\/li>\n<li>Contamination by caesium 134 and 137 combined (Cs-134+Cs-137) in becquerel per square metre<\/li>\n<li>Contamination by caesium 134 (Cs-134) in becquerel per square metre<\/li>\n<li>Contamination by caesium 137 (Cs-137) in becquerel per square metre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ramap.jaea.go.jp\/map\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/blog\/jp-rad-map.jpg\" title=\"Radiation maps of Japan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The data was collected via helicopter flights carrying instruments that detect gamma radiation of different energy spectrums, allowing a breakdown by isotopes causing it.<\/p>\n<p>There are the following data sets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 29<\/li>\n<li>May 26<\/li>\n<li>July 2<\/li>\n<li>Miyagi prefecture, July 2<\/li>\n<li>Tochigi prefecture, July 16<\/li>\n<li>Ibaraki prefecture, August 2<\/li>\n<li>Chiba and Saitama prefecture, September 12<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo and Kanagawa prefecture, September 18<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click on this link:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ramap.jaea.go.jp\/map\/\">http:\/\/ramap.jaea.go.jp\/map\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>either the online maps or download PDF files of the maps and click on &#8220;\u540c\u610f\u3059\u308b&#8221; (&#8220;I do agree&#8221;, the left button) to get access.<\/p>\n<p>The government is planning to extend the radiation survey to the whole of Japan, not just within about 250 km of the wrecked reactors as is currently the case.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/25\/tepcos-unfiltered-vent-path\/\">Tepco\u2019s unfiltered vent path<\/a> (2011-08-25)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/rc20111020a3.html\">&#8220;Okutama is no Chernobyl&#8221;<\/a> (LTE in Japan Times, 2011-10-20)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese government has published online map data about radiation levels in Eastern Japan. You can zoom in and out, scroll around and select data from: Background radiation in microsievert per hour Contamination by caesium 134 and 137 combined (Cs-134+Cs-137) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/radiation-map-of-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,38,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fukushima","category-japan","category-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}