As of 29 February 2020 the town has a population of 1238 in 794 households, although the official registered population was 17,114 in 6853 households.
There are also people working in these zones."More than 200,000 inhabitants within a 20km radius were forced to evacuate Namie, Japan, when an earthquake and tsunami caused a meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011."The red zone is closed but still a lot of people are working in this zone, renovating or demolishing buildings."The fact that people left this kind of value behind and never came back to pick anything up in 6-7 years, shows us the impact of the disaster.An abandoned town near Fukushima that has laid empty since the nuclear disaster forced everyone to flee has been uncovered in eerie new footage.Bob, from Heerlen, the Netherlands, said: "There was everything from books, magazines to CDs, DVDs, games consoles and all kinds of games.He said: "But while walking around in the area you notice how big the impact most have been for the inhabitants."There are three zones.
It was about 2:00 a.m. when we entered the city. Even today, tens of thousands of survivors live in temporary housing as the area surrounding the nuclear plant remains too contaminated by radiation for residents to return for more than short visits.Strange Abandoned Places features the worlds most mysterious locations, strange places and abandoned buildings.Urban landscapes, haunted buildings, disused military buildings and more are all featured.We feature amazing urban pictures capturing the atmosphere of all these strange and derelict locations.The abandoned towns of Fukushima Every single last crevice of the town will be cleaned up somehow. Still, some people are starting to filter back in.The streets are motionless. The abandoned towns of Fukushima. The town was evacuated as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster—being directly downwind from the power plant—and was within the exclusion zone set up in response to the disaster.
Four years after the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and displaced more than 300,000, the surrounding towns of Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant … The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 transformed the Ukrainian city of Pripyat into a ghost town. Other towns have also been abandoned after nuclear disasters, and each is a skeleton of its former self, strewn with deserted cars and dilapidated buildings. You can find more of Keow’s work on his Facebook page. I deeply apologise to the residents of Fukushima and Japan if they felt that I have disrespected their home by misrepresenting Fukushima in such a bad light, but it is what it is. I went in to Fukushima with that exact same mindset- to document the devastating consequences and to spread awareness of the long lasting effects of nuclear power to (hopefully) prevent other countries from considering usage of nuclear weaponry. "More than 7 years after one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, towns around Japan's nuclear power plant struggle to rebuild Today, residents of those towns are reluctant to return, even as the Japanese government works to assure the towns' safety.In March 2011, meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant triggered huge explosions that sent plumes of radioactive debris into the atmosphere.
A lot of residents have moved homes—and moved on, rebuilding their lives elsewhere.
Editor’s note: It should go without saying, but this nuclear exclusion zone is off-limits for a reason.