In 2011, a powerful earthquake and tsunami destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which led to the most severe in 25 years of global nuclear crisis. It was ordered to evacuate about 160 000 people living near the plant, and the government has established a 20-kilometer evacuation zone. The owner of the plant, the company Tokyo Electric Power Co, struggling to contain the polluted waters at the site 240 kilometers north of Tokyo. Over the past two and a half years there have been several leaks and accidents.
22 photos via TotallyCoolPix
1. The waves beat on the fence by the tsunami, when a typhoon hits the area near the town of Iwaki, south of the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant «Fukushima Daiichi» in Fukushima.
2. Before abandoned house destroyed by the tsunami in the coastal area of the evacuated town of Namie, you can see a small monument to the earthquake victims.
3. In the coastal area of the evacuated town of Namie near the destroyed nuclear power plant «Fukushima Daiichi» in Fukushima, the beach is littered with fences tsunami wreckage of cars and other debris.
4. Vending Machine, beached tsunami seen in abandoned paddy fields in the exclusion zone in the coastal area near Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture.
5. Vending Machine, beached tsunami seen in abandoned paddy fields in the exclusion zone in the coastal area near Minamisoma in Fukushima
6. An elderly woman bent over the grave of her relatives in the cemetery of a tsunami devastated the coastal area of the evacuated town of Namie in Fukushima.
7. At home, destroyed by an earthquake in 2011, to evacuate the city Namie, plants grow.
8. dense thickets are seen from an abandoned house in the devastated coast to evacuate the city Namie.
9. warp clock, spider webs and a different visible debris from the destroyed primary school on the coast, the destruction of the tsunami in the evacuated town of Namie.
10. In the kitchen, a ruined house in the city evacuated Namie in Fukushima, the clock shows the time of the quake.
11. Copies of the newspaper «Fukushima Minpo» headers M-importance (8, 8 points), the most important in the country, dated the day after the devastating earthquake of 2011, can be seen inside the office in the evacuated town of Namie in Fukushima
12. Dead cat among the debris in the building evacuated town Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture.
13. The control panel warning system in primary school destroyed in the tsunami destroyed the coastal town of Namie evacuated.
14. Ball inside the destroyed primary school in the tsunami destroyed the coastal city evacuated Namie in Fukushima.
15. Messages of support are written on the board in science class in primary school in the tsunami destroyed the coastal city evacuated Namie in Fukushima
16. Traditional local shoes in an abandoned civilian center destroyed by a tsunami on the coast to evacuate the city Namie in Fukushima is just 6 kilometers away from the destroyed nuclear power plant «Fukushima Daiichi».
17. Bicycles left at the train station in the city evacuated Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture.
18. A man fishes at the beach, which is closed to the public, near the city of Iwaki, south of the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant «Fukushima Daiichi»
19. One of the surfers board carries, others catch the wave front of the fence by the tsunami at a closed beach Toyoma near Iwaki, south of the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant «Fukushima Daiichi»
20. Rescue observation tower and drawings on the fences of the tsunami can be seen on the beach Usuiso, which is closed to the public, in the tsunami-damaged coastal zone near the city of Iwaki to the south of the destroyed nuclear power plant
21. Power lines go from the tsunami destroyed a nuclear power plant «Fukushima Daiichi», the view from the highway 6 near the town of Okuma
22. The guard blocking the road from the highway to the exclusion zone 6
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