Radiation-soaked Fukushima town REOPENS to visitors 7 years after meltdown

December 16, 2018

The town next to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Planet that suffered a devastating meltdown in 2011 has reopened.

Futaba – on the Fukushima Prefecture – was turned into a ghost town after a huge tsunami swamped the nuclear reactors, triggering a massive radiation leak.

But authorities are now planning on reopening the town – despite warnings of worryingly high levels of radiation.

Shortly after the meltdown, all of Futaba was closed off after critical levels above 50 millisieverts of radiation were recorded.

Those hoping to travel there will need to apply for permission to enter before they will be allowed past a checkpoint

It is thought the town could be rebuilt and ready for evacuees to move back in by 2022 provided it reaches government-set safe levels of contamination by the end of the year.

Officials want radiation levels to be below 1 millisievert for people to live there again.

Photographs taken in the last few years of the areas surrounding Fukushima show something out of a post-apocalyptic war zone.

Last year, shocking images emerged of radioactive boars roaming around several towns in the evacuation zone.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/748472/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-town-reopens-radiation-meltdown

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