The lights are still on, but, no one is home.

This July 25, 2011 (click title to entry - thank you) photo shows the radiation-contaminated and abandoned town of Namie, Japan at dawn. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)

Namie, Japan joins Chernobyl in abandoned cities due to nuclear contamination. 

It reminds me of one of those disaster films where speculation regarding what happens when human beings no longer inhabit Earth plays to everyone's fears.  It would seem in some cities in the world it is no longer speculation.


Evacuated residents of Fukushima no-go area set up temporary town nearby (click here)

March 18, 2012\

FUKUSHIMA -- The town of Okuma, which entirely falls within the exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, is planning to establish an "out of town" community as residents' forced evacuations are expected to last a long time.
On March 16, the town's reconstruction planning committee held a meeting in Aizuwakamatsu, drawing up a draft plan to set up a "temporary town" in Iwaki or elsewhere in Fukushima Prefecture, equipped with town office functions, schools and houses by 2016. Some 11,100 residents of Okuma have been evacuated out of the town in the wake of the outbreak of the nuclear disaster in March last year....