Radiation Watch

The Radiation Watch panel answers three questions at a glance: what is normal right now, what is elevated, and which anomalies are corroborated versus tentative. It pulls observation-level readings from official and citizen-science networks, compares each station against its own baseline, and flags anomalies with a confidence assessment that reconciles agreement (or conflict) between sources.

What the panel shows

A list of radiation observations with:

• Station reading — the observed value and unit, with the baseline shown alongside.
• Delta — how the current reading compares to the station's baseline (absolute and z-score).
• Per-row status badges — each observation can surface inline badges for confirmed (corroborated across sources), conflict (disagreement with nearby readings), and CPM-derived (value was originally in counts-per-minute and was converted to the panel's display unit).

A summary bar across the top of the panel renders six count cards:

Card	Backing field
Anomalies	anomalyCount
Elevated	elevatedCount
Confirmed	corroboratedCount
Low Confidence	lowConfidenceCount
Conflicts	conflictingCount
Spikes	spikeCount

CPM-derived observations are surfaced per-row only (as a badge), not in the summary bar.

Row interactions:

• Click a row to jump the map to that station's coordinates (requires the map to be mounted in the current variant).

Panel id is radiation-watch; canonical component is src/components/RadiationWatchPanel.ts.

How you reach it

• Cmd+K: type radiation.
• Availability by variant: registered and enabled by default in the full/geopolitical variant only. Not present in the tech, finance, commodity, or happy variants. Source: FULL_PANELS in src/config/panels.ts.

Data sources

Per the in-panel info tooltip, Radiation Watch is seeded from:

• EPA RadNet — the US Environmental Protection Agency's radiation monitoring network.
• Safecast — open citizen-science radiation network.

A single RPC backs the panel: GET /api/radiation/v1/list-radiation-observations. The backend seeder fetches both upstreams, applies baseline comparison + confidence synthesis, and writes the aggregated result at radiation:observations:v1 in Redis.

Refresh cadence

The seeder is a short-interval job. The key is allowed up to 30 minutes in api/health.js (maxStaleMin: 30) before the health surface escalates. In practice this is one of the fastest-refreshing seeds on the platform.

Tier & gating

Radiation Watch is free. No premium flag in src/config/panels.ts; the RPC is public.

API reference

• Radiation service — list-radiation-observations.