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    Will Cities near Fukushima-Daiichi look like this someday?

    By FurudeRikaChama on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:33pm |

    These are pictures taken of a city called Pripyat, which was near Chernobyl's reactors. Sadly, the town was abandoned due to fears of radiation. You can see that the photographer was taking a big risk by being in an area where there are high levels of radiation. Surprisingly, quoted from the article:

    "For the most part, liquidators did an effective job of washing most of the radiation into the soil, so the concreted areas are relatively safe. The areas around the edges - where leaves and moss have built up - is where most of the radiation is still residing near the surface."

    This person went to different places in Pripyat and around the vicinity, even near Chernobyl's REACTORS! Guess they got permission to do that. Which brings me back to a random thought I had upon reading this article.

    Will cities near Fukushima Daiichi look like this someday? It seems inevitable. Perhaps, twenty or thrity years from now, explorers will be taking pictures of abandoned towns in Japan that were affected by the radiation.