11 Mar 2011 Japan has shaken the world’s largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
After a 9-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami collapsed, unable to withstand the pressure of the elements, the reactor of a nuclear power plant “Fukushima-1”. Due to heavy release of radiation several cities around the station had to be evacuated. Today in their place is the exclusion zone where get only desperate daredevils to take a look at the damn ground.
The destruction of civilization
People left the house in the “Ghost towns” left by the people around Fukushima are gradually destroyed. Nature takes its toll, gradually seizing territory once reclaimed from her civilization.
Staying time
All calendars in the Ghost towns around Fukushima will forever show March 2011.
Abandoned
In the rush and panic of the evacuation people took with them, often throwing the Pets in their old homes. For cats and dogs left in the exclusion zone, so no one came back. According to rumors, over the years, they went feral and are now the only population of evacuated areas.
Overcrowded shelves
Japanese Ghost towns, there was virtually no looting. On the shelves after the departure of the people reigned the same abundance as usual. As shown by this picture of the photographer-Stalker keow Wee Loong, over the years, nothing has changed: the stock and continue to rot on store shelves.
Horses, thrown to his death
If cats and dogs abandoned in abandoned cities, had all the chances to feed the horse locked in the stables, was simply left to die. But people should not be blamed for it: the evacuation was urgent, and most residents were allowed to take only the minimum required, which could fit in hand Luggage.
Rails to nowhere
Once off the rails walked every day dozens of trains. Now there are none: the area is too heavily contaminated with radiation even in order to allow rail transport to overcome it without stopping. Unnecessary rails stretch across the land where for tens of kilometers around there is not a single human soul.
The search for survivors
After the urban population around Fukushima was evacuated, police and firefighters for some time continued in this area, the search for survivors of victims of the earthquake and tsunami, which did not notice in the bustle of evacuation. They all, of course, were dressed in radiation suits and all the same actions could be considered an act of selflessness. Their work was not in vain: the last survivors managed to find a month later after the explosion at Fukushima.
Destruction
The images show that the buildings in the exclusion zone are being destroyed much faster than one would assume. However, the reason is simple: many of them were heavily damaged during the earthquake and tsunami.
Abandoned homes
At home in the exclusion zone, as shops were not looted. Until now human dwellings are exactly in the form in which they left in a hurry fleeing owners: with scattered things, plates from beneath half-eaten dinner and a disassembled bed in which no one will never be sleep.
Merchandise
Washing powder and liquid for washing dishes from the shelves in the town of Okuma, near the destroyed nuclear power plants, more never need.
Drives
Perhaps someday the descendants of the remnants of the Ghost towns around Fukushima will be to explore what is on DVD – at a time when a civilized, populated by people the world this format a long time will sink into oblivion.
Assembly point
Here people gathered, frightened by the storm, those whose houses are a victim of the earthquake and tsunami. It was here that they learned that the area contaminated by radiation, and they will have to leave their homes. This is where the majority left the evacuation, often failing to take even the most necessary.
In the Laundry room
The evacuation was so fast and feverish that some people are unable even to wait until their linen finish washed in a local Laundry machine.
Semaphores and traffic lights
On roads and railroads in the exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant “Fukushima-1” still continues to operate a system of traffic lights and semaphores. However, their lights are now useless.
Flowers sprout through asphalt
This photo was taken five years after the disaster. It shows how the vegetation gradually captures the territory of the former civilization, cracking the asphalt Parking lot and throwing lampposts. Most likely, in five years, the plants and the rust will absorb abandoned by the owners of the machine, and the first place it will be difficult to understand that once there was a city.
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