- Documentary makers have entered the eerie abandoned streets of Fukushima, Japan after a 2011 disaster
- The footage they captured showed the devastation caused by the nuclear meltdown on the city
- Three nuclear reactors at a power plant in Fukushima melted down after a huge earthquake and tsunami
- About 300,000 people evacuated the Fukushima area and 15,584 died due to the disaster in March 2011
Documentary filmmakers have entered the eerie abandoned streets of Fukushima six years after the city experienced a devastating nuclear disaster.
Three nuclear reactors melted down at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan after a tsunami struck in March 2011.
About 300,000 people evacuated the Fukushima area and 15,584 people died as the tsunami washed away entire towns following the 9.0-magnitude earthquake.
Documentary filmmakers have entered Fukushima six years after the city experienced a terrible nuclear disaster
Bob Thissen and Sempels Frederik (pictured) have visited the evacuated city and filmed the aftermath of the disaster
The red zone is guarded by police but Mr Thissen and Mr Frederik managed to enter, filming the inside of supermarkets with shelves full of food and cigarettes
Documentary makers Bob Thissen and Sempels Frederik have visited the evacuated city and filmed the aftermath of the disaster.
The footage they captured showed how people dropped what they were doing in order to escape.
Classrooms in the city still have books and pens on desks, while houses have calendars open to March 11, 2011, the date of the disaster.
The red zone is guarded by police but Mr Thissen and Mr Frederik managed to enter, filming the inside of supermarkets with shelves full of food and cigarettes.
The footage will be part of a documentary series called Abandoned Fukushima.
Earlier in 2017, a study claimed every person on Earth received the equivalent of an extra x-ray from radiation exposure following the nuclear disaster.
The footage will be part of a documentary series called Abandoned Fukushima
Three of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant’s nuclear reactors went into meltdown releasing radioactive materials during the accident in March 2011 (pictured is the clean up effort)
Three of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant’s nuclear reactors went into meltdown releasing radioactive materials during the accident in March 2011.
Reports claim the soil and water in the region still contain high levels of radiation which has hindered the clean-up effort.
Reports claim the soil and water in the region still contain high levels of radiation which has hindered the clean-up effort – pictured are thousands of large bags full of radioactive waste from the disaster