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| title: "Radiation Watch" |
| description: "Worldwide radiation readings from EPA RadNet and Safecast, with baseline comparison, anomaly scoring, and source-confidence synthesis." |
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| 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. |
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| ## What the panel shows |
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| A list of radiation observations with: |
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| - **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). |
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| A summary bar across the top of the panel renders six count cards: |
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| | Card | Backing field | |
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| | Anomalies | `anomalyCount` | |
| | Elevated | `elevatedCount` | |
| | Confirmed | `corroboratedCount` | |
| | Low Confidence | `lowConfidenceCount` | |
| | Conflicts | `conflictingCount` | |
| | Spikes | `spikeCount` | |
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| CPM-derived observations are surfaced per-row only (as a badge), not in the summary bar. |
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| **Row interactions**: |
| - Click a row to jump the map to that station's coordinates (requires the map to be mounted in the current variant). |
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| Panel id is `radiation-watch`; canonical component is `src/components/RadiationWatchPanel.ts`. |
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| ## How you reach it |
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| - **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`. |
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| ## Data sources |
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| Per the in-panel info tooltip, Radiation Watch is seeded from: |
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| - **EPA RadNet** — the US Environmental Protection Agency's radiation monitoring network. |
| - **Safecast** — open citizen-science radiation network. |
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| 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. |
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| ## Refresh cadence |
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| 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. |
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| ## Tier & gating |
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| Radiation Watch is **free**. No `premium` flag in `src/config/panels.ts`; the RPC is public. |
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| ## API reference |
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| - [Radiation service](/api/RadiationService.openapi.yaml) — `list-radiation-observations`. |
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