Traveler sneaks into Fukushima’s red zone: Abandoned nuclear control room ‘frozen’ in time (vid)

Traveler sneaks into Fukushima’s red zone: Abandoned nuclear control room ‘frozen’ in time (vid)
Traveler sneaks into Fukushima’s red zone: Abandoned nuclear control room ‘frozen’ in time (vid)
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A traveler sneaked into the eerie Fukushima exclusion zone that remains untouched 13 years after the major nuclear accident.

An intrepid explorer sneaked into the abandoned control room nuclear facilities in its infamous “red zone”. Fukushima.

Lukka Ventures, 27, explores abandoned buildings in the United Kingdom for four years now. However, recently he dared to go to Ōkuma her Japanafter watching a documentary about its nuclear disaster Fukushima. The “red zones” refer to areas that have been blocked off by the authorities and are located around the nuclear power plant due to.

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami caused severe damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three of the plant’s six nuclear reactors were severely damaged and released hydrogen and radioactive materialsforcing residents into a radius 30 kilometers from the area to move away.

Despite the dangers, Lukka from Manchester, toured the derelicts hospitalsin malls and apartments, which, he said, were “frozen” in time.

The youngster Youtuber he said: “It was a very surreal experience. Everything was left in place. There were calendars on the wall showing the date of the disaster… You walk into a building and see all the things in their place.”.

THE Lukkaspent four days in her red zone Fukushima and shared the incredible images on his channel at YouTube.

He had with him a meter used to detect and measure ionizing radiation to make sure he wasn’t exposed. THE Lukka added: “We were drilling through rivers and fences to get there. We had to be very careful as there was strong radiation in some areas… It was so surreal. You would go to malls and they still had food on the shelves. Everything was left. Every building we entered was truly untouched.

During his exploration, Lukka he also found a nuclear shelter in a training center. “We entered a large glass building that had a model of the reactor in the lobby. We were near the power plant that exploded. We walked around the building and there were rooms that had nuclear controllers in there.”explained.

The article is in Greek

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