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Pictures from Tamioka after the Fukushima disaster may 2014

Image shows over 5.4 microsieverts per hour (5 mcSv/h) on official Geiger counter
http://crisisreliefjapan.com/2014/05/17/tomioka-eerie-images-show-what-is-left-of-japanese-city-abandoned-after-tsunami-and-fukushima-nuclear-meltdown/ (More images on link)

Looking at these pictures from the Daily Mail, I wondered how the residents left everything behind in a hurry, never to return.

Being from a radiation zone, they might find it hard to be accepted by society at large.

By WILLS ROBINSON

It was a city known for its beautiful beaches and boasts one of the longest cherry blossom tree tunnels in Japan.

But after a tsunami and a nuclear disaster both struck in the space of 12 months, Tomioka was turned into a ghost city.

These eerie images, captured by a drone, show what is left of the area near Fukushima that had to be abandoned overnight.

More than 15,000 residents living in 6,000 houses were forced to evacuate in March 2011 because of safety fears concerning dangerous radiation levels.

Three years on, schools and business are still prevented from returning while parks, playgrounds, roads and the city’s train station have been left covered in overgrown grass.

A total of 300,000 people have been evacuated from the east coast of the country since the disasters and 15,884 have died.

Road to nowhere: The way into Tomioka, Fukushima, has been blocked off, preventing residents from going back because of dangerous radiation levels

August 1, 2014 - Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized