Our community has collected over a million measurements of radioactivity in the environment, thanks to the efforts of more than 350 contributors. This symbolic milestone reflects the strength of the collective and the importance of participatory science in helping us to better understand our environment.
Thanks to you, these #OpenRadiation measurements now cover many regions around the world! Each of your measurements contributes to a highly detailed map of ambient radioactivity.

But what is the purpose of all these accumulated measurements?

First and foremost, they are useful to you! By taking measurements yourself and exchanging information with other contributors, you are gaining essential skills for understanding the radiological quality of your environment. And we are establishing more and more contacts with scientists who are particularly interested in this data. For example, a call was made to the community as part of the CORALE research project to carry out measurements of ambient radioactivity in different countries.  

The OpenRadiation project has also been included in an application for European funding. If funded, the aim of this project will be to clarify the conditions for using citizen-based radioactivity measurements to complement environmental monitoring measures, whether for the detection of radiological anomalies or in the event of a radiological emergency. 
These two examples point the way forward for OpenRadiation, demonstrating that citizen measurements can be of interest to the scientific community, beyond the personal interests of contributors and their use as a tool for discovering radioactivity, its nature, its measurement and its risks for oneself. 
 

In order to continue the development of OpenRadiation, collaborations have been established with other citizen measurement networks such as Ibercivis (Spain), Citistra (Czech Republic), and citizen networks interested in measuring radioactivity such as Nuclear Transparency Watch (NTW) in Europe and NPO Fukushima Dialogue in Japan. 
 

But all this is made possible thanks to the commitment of contributors who take measurements in their environment. A huge thank you to all the volunteers and enthusiasts, as well as to our partners, Anccli, IFFo-Rme, Planète Sciences, Fablab de Sorbonne Université and ASNR, who support these projects. We will tell you more about this in the next OpenRadiation Newsletter.

Let us continue to enrich the database and analysis of these measures together.