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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 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=1The 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
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Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)1. K&R for Sakamoto san
newfie11
(8,159 posts)2. Nuclear power or nuclear bomb
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.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)3. Did you mean does *not* wake up? n/t
newfie11
(8,159 posts)4. Oops yes!!!!
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)5. K&R for more visibility. nt
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)6. It's beginning to look a lot like Chernobyl...