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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 05:28 AM Oct 2013

The Towns Around Fukushima Power Plant Look Like A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare [PHOTOS]

http://www.businessinsider.com/towns-near-fukushima-power-plant-photos-2013-10?op=1

The sign reads "Nuclear Power — The Energy for a Better Future." After the disaster, the Japanese government evacuated the 160,000 people in the towns surrounding the Daichi Power Plant.


In the kitchen of a damaged house, a clock shows the time of March 11, 2011, the day of the earthquake.


Wild flowers and other vegetation grow over a train line in Namie.


Keigo Sakamoto, 58, holds Atom, one of his 21 dogs and over 500 animals he keeps at his home in the exclusion zone. Sakamoto, a former caregiver and farmer, takes care of the animals with donations and support from outside Fukushima.
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The Towns Around Fukushima Power Plant Look Like A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare [PHOTOS] (Original Post) xchrom Oct 2013 OP
K&R for Sakamoto san Fumesucker Oct 2013 #1
Yes! MoonRiver Oct 2013 #7
Nuclear power or nuclear bomb newfie11 Oct 2013 #2
Did you mean does *not* wake up? n/t cui bono Oct 2013 #3
Oops yes!!!! newfie11 Oct 2013 #4
K&R for more visibility. nt Mnemosyne Oct 2013 #5
It's beginning to look a lot like Chernobyl... JaneyVee Oct 2013 #6

newfie11

(8,159 posts)
2. Nuclear power or nuclear bomb
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 06:05 AM
Oct 2013

Last edited Sat Oct 12, 2013, 08:00 AM - Edit history (1)

This could be the future of the world if mankind does not wake up.

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