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Inside the deserted Fukushima exclusion zone
These never-before-seen photographs give an unprecedented look at the exclusion zone surrounding the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The massive 12.5 mile zone has become an overgrown wilderness after being abandoned in the wake of the 2011 nuclear disaster.
Hundreds of cars, bikes and every-day items lay untouched as a reminder of the haste in which they were left when the area was evacuated after a massive tsunami ripped the power plant apart.
The disaster, triggered by an earthquake, saw tonnes deadly radioactive waste released into the surrounding area.
It is still contaminated.
Classrooms and libraries still have work books on the tables and writing on the backboards.
Hundreds of bikes are still parked in bicycle racks and lines of cars are seen being slowly swallowed by mounting overgrowth.
Supermarkets still have products on shelves, school blackboards contain the day’s lesson plans and cars were abandoned in lanes of traffic.
In total 160,000 were evacuated from their homes.
Some 120,000 have still not been able to return because they are too dangerous to enter.
Arkadiusz Podniesinski, a professional photographer and filmmaker from Poland, took the pictures when he visited Fukushima last month.
The 43-year-old said: “My goal was to present the actual state of the exclusion zone.
“Futaba, Namie and Tomioka are ghost towns whose emptiness is terrifying and show a tragedy that affected hundreds of thousands of people.”
Three of Fukushima’s Daiichi reactors were disabled when the huge wave hit on March 11, 2011 .
Al three cores melted in the following days and four reactors were written off.
13 Comments on "Inside the deserted Fukushima exclusion zone"
makati1 on Wed, 7th Oct 2015 7:23 pm
Coming to a neighborhood near you. Or, should I say, 400+ neighborhoods? If you run out energy to cool the cores and the spent fuel, you run out of luck.
Boat on Wed, 7th Oct 2015 7:37 pm
Davy has goats to pee on them. They in walking distance to.
dooma on Wed, 7th Oct 2015 7:49 pm
The first picture is pure doomsday porn.
I am surprised that nobody at least tried to watermark those photos?
But I guess in this new age we live in, ALL pictures are “shopped” in one way or another.
I would like a bitcoin for every time that especially the first photograph will be used on Youtube by religious fanatics etc.
makati1 on Wed, 7th Oct 2015 9:05 pm
Interesting pics and may be real. If you want to see the Fukushima plant as it is/was June 1st, this year, go to Google Earth at these co-ordinates:
lat 37.421148 lon 141.031607
You can see the huge yard full of storage tanks and the destroyed buildings. The pics are clear down to about 100 meters altitude.
makati1 on Wed, 7th Oct 2015 9:15 pm
BTW: Maybe this brings it closer to home?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-07/catastrophic-event-looms-stlouis-underground-fire-burning-2010-nears-nuclear-waste
“Beneath the surface of a St. Louis-area landfill lurk two things that should never meet: a slow-burning fire and a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste, separated by no more than 1,200 feet.”
dooma on Wed, 7th Oct 2015 9:57 pm
Thanks for the co-ordinates mak. I will check them out when I get a chance.
BC on Wed, 7th Oct 2015 11:15 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUqHECc5rPo
BC on Wed, 7th Oct 2015 11:19 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUqHECc5rPo
https://app.box.com/s/0vgiilt9j85ix0yzaq7zi851zx6qw08x
https://app.box.com/s/dvm3r502fj13jievz36y0k0lq0eoegx7
Davy on Thu, 8th Oct 2015 2:15 am
Thanks dog paw for the update. Keep me informed of what happens. I feel safe knowing you got my back.
seen from sirius on Thu, 8th Oct 2015 6:10 am
Much nicer than before , I’d say.
Oil slicks are far worse for the environment.
dolanbaker on Thu, 8th Oct 2015 7:33 am
Looking at the other images on the source website, I have one question:-
Why are the cars LHD, they drive on the left in Japan so the steering wheel should be on the right hand side of the vehicles not the left!
Kenz300 on Thu, 8th Oct 2015 11:30 am
Nuclear energy is too costly and too dangerous……
Wind and solar are the future…….
makati1 on Fri, 9th Oct 2015 5:44 am
“TOKYO, Oct. 8 (UPI) — Fukushima radiation has been linked to a surge in thyroid cancer among children near the disaster area, and radiation woes have reach South Korea, where findings revealed imported tobacco from Japan contained higher than normal levels of radioactive cesium.”
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/10/08/Fukushima-radiation-hits-home-as-thyroid-cancer-rises-among-children/2801444327378/
How many of these time bombs are there? 400+? 100+ in the Us alone.