If you walk into the 30-mile radius around the Fukushima Daiichi reactor, you will find that it is totally deserted. It was called a "designated exclusion zone" that was not safe since March 2011. More than a 100,000 had fled the city after a tsunami triggered off a nuclear explosion here.
Kuniyuki Sakuma, a former resident said: "There are many problems in areas affected by the disaster, such as high radiation levels in parts of Fukushima Prefecture that need to be overcome."
Arnie Gunderson, a former nuclear engineer, said that it is important to stop the ground water seeping into the plant. He said: "The reactors continue to bleed radiation into the groundwater and thence into the Pacific Ocean. When Tepco finally stops the groundwater, that will be the end of the beginning."
One intrepid man used Imgur to post pictures of the area five years after the desertion. He shot the grocery stores, laundromats that had clothes on the dryer and lost articles in various houses here.
When he walked into the radioactive area, he describes feeling "a burning sensation in my eyes and thick chemical smell in the air". But though he selected a face mask and gloves, he wore only shorts and sandals.
"I can find food, money, gold, laptop and other valuable in the red zone," he wrote. "I'm amazed that nobody looted this town clean."
The town, in fact, did not witness any thieving at all. Retail shop objects were not touched for five years. Many things here look faded, but most of them seem to have worn the years well---obviously because everyone is just too afraid to touch anything in the area. And that is more scary, of course, than if the shops had been stripped clean.
