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29.03.2013 12:44Google Street View Shows Images of Fukushima Disaster-Swept Town
The town of Nomie, just some 5 km away from the nuclear meltdown site, was evacuated in March 2011 following the disaster
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Google Inc. (GOOG) released images taken by its Street View service from the town of Namie, Japan, inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011.
Google, operator of the world’s biggest Web search engine, entered Namie this month at the invitation of the town’s mayor, Tamotsu Baba, and produced the 360-degree imagery for the Google Maps and Google Earth services, it said yesterday in an e-mailed statement.
All of Namie’s 21,000 residents were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the town, causing the world’s worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. Baba asked Mountain View, California-based Google to map the town to create a permanent record of its state two years after the evacuation, he said in a Google blog post, as quoted by Bloomberg.
Goggle Street View shows intact abandoned buildings, cars and everyday objects along some crumbling facades and bushy parking lots.
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