Return to Fukushima: Eerie pictures show the abandoned streets and buildings six years after 100,000 fled Japanese nuclear disaster zone
For years the streets of Fukushima have lain empty after residents fled in fear during a nuclear disaster caused by an earthquake.
The nuclear nightmare saw thousands flee their homes in panic on March 11, 2011, when whole towns and villages were evacuated.
A 30 mile exclusion zone was set up around the site of the disaster, and very few have ventured inside the most restricted red zone since the mass exodus.
But now British photographer Rebecca Bathory has had a rare chance to reveal what the site looks like now, with a book of eerie images revealing the aftermath of the evacuation.
Homes and buildings have remained untouched since the fateful day when a tsumani disabled the power power supply which cooled the three Fukishima Daiichi reactors.
All three cores melted in the first three days, and the government instructed 100,000 people to leave amid fears of isotopic radiation – an invisible fiend which can alter human DNA.
Animals starved in the streets and buildings have rotted and collapsed in the intervening years. Although residents in the town of Tomioka were given permission to return, many remain nervous about moving back into the disaster zone.
Although no one was killed by the effects of the nuclear accident, the Japanese government estimates that around 1,000 people died indirectly as a result of the evacuation.
These incredible photographs feature in the book Return to Fukishuma.
Cloggie on Thu, 13th Apr 2017 4:54 am
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peakyeast on Thu, 13th Apr 2017 4:56 am
Looks Just like Detroit – just with a different alphabet.
Davy on Thu, 13th Apr 2017 6:31 am
peak yeast, your Detroit is coming and you will have no place to go to. At least many in Detroit could move elsewhere in Michigan. Michigan is a beautiful state with plenty of open spaces something you have little of with a density of 129 km/sq and Michigan at 67. And as far as wealth they have you beat too at 382BIL and you at 335BIL.
Sissyfuss on Thu, 13th Apr 2017 10:19 am
And we got lots of fresh water too, Davy. It will be the new oil in the coming climate disruption.
forbin on Fri, 14th Apr 2017 1:25 am
I wonder what the radiation levels were/are?
any one know?
Forbin
dave thompson on Fri, 14th Apr 2017 3:07 am
OH look how safe, clean and to cheap to meter it is.
makati1 on Fri, 14th Apr 2017 3:24 am
Density means shit if you don’t have clean water to drink or the climate is a killer half of the year. Or if the weather is so erratic that you cannot grow crops. Or if there is no income/jobs. Or…
Davy on Fri, 14th Apr 2017 4:48 am
“Density means shit if you don’t have clean water to drink or the climate is a killer half of the year. Or if the weather is so erratic that you cannot grow crops. Or if there is no income/jobs. Or…” LMFAO.
Check this out makati from manila, double lol, you are number ONE on the list. You like being first well here you go braggart!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population_density
Repent on Fri, 14th Apr 2017 1:53 pm
This sight will be seen at every nuclear reactor site worldwide in 100 years that wasn’t decommissioned properly.