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Caught On Video: Radioactive Wild Boar Roam Fukushima
First photos of radioactive wild boar roaming Fukushima's nuclear wastelands as they're culled for attacking people
These incredible photos were taken as a culling team entered the towns inside the exclusion zone set up after the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi power plant in 2011
By Kiyoshi Takenaka, Teppei Kasai
12:36, 9 MAR 2017 - Updated: 01:01, 10 MAR 2017
We've all heard the crazy stories about radioactive boar roaming the nuclear wastelands of Fukushima.
But such an outlandish tale can't possibly be true, can it?
No-one has ever seen pictures of these creatures
Until now.
These incredibly unusual photographs of the terrifying mammals were taken in the exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, whose reactors went into meltdown after it was struck by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
There have been many obvious dangers faced by Japan in the wake of the disaster, but one of the most unexpected has also proved to be one of the most fascinating.
The bloodied teeth and gums of a radioactive wild boar as he gnaws away at the wires of its booby trap (Photo: REUTERS)
Fat pig: The boars need to be culled because the owners of these homes ware returning to the town at the end of the month (Photo: REUTERS)
When the exclusion zone was set up - with the surrounding towns population evacuated to a safe distance - hundreds of the wild boars, which have been known to attack people when enraged, descended from surrounding hills and forests into the deserted streets.
Now they roam the empty streets and overgrown garden's of Japan's deserted seaside town of Namie, foraging for food
However, the people of Namie are scheduled to return to the town at the end of the month, which means the bloody-toothed interlopers have to be cleared.
"It is not really clear now which is the master of the town, people or wild boars," said Tamotsu Baba, mayor of the town.
Wild boar meat is a delicacy in northern Japan, but animals slaughtered since the disaster are too contaminated to eat. According to tests conducted by the Japanese government, some of the boars have shown levels of radioactive element caesium-137 that are 300 times higher than safety standards.
Authorities in the town of Tomioka say they’ve killed 800 so far, but officials there say that’s not enough, according to Japanese media. The latest statistics show that in the three years since 2011, the number of boars killed in hunts has grown to 13,000 from 3,000.
But at town meetings earlier this year to prepare for the homecoming, residents had voiced worries about the wild boars.
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MORE pictures at Daily Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/first-photos-radioactive-wild-boars-9996080
First photos of radioactive wild boar roaming Fukushima's nuclear wastelands as they're culled for attacking people
These incredible photos were taken as a culling team entered the towns inside the exclusion zone set up after the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi power plant in 2011
By Kiyoshi Takenaka, Teppei Kasai
12:36, 9 MAR 2017 - Updated: 01:01, 10 MAR 2017
We've all heard the crazy stories about radioactive boar roaming the nuclear wastelands of Fukushima.
But such an outlandish tale can't possibly be true, can it?
No-one has ever seen pictures of these creatures
Until now.
These incredibly unusual photographs of the terrifying mammals were taken in the exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, whose reactors went into meltdown after it was struck by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
There have been many obvious dangers faced by Japan in the wake of the disaster, but one of the most unexpected has also proved to be one of the most fascinating.
The bloodied teeth and gums of a radioactive wild boar as he gnaws away at the wires of its booby trap (Photo: REUTERS)
Fat pig: The boars need to be culled because the owners of these homes ware returning to the town at the end of the month (Photo: REUTERS)
When the exclusion zone was set up - with the surrounding towns population evacuated to a safe distance - hundreds of the wild boars, which have been known to attack people when enraged, descended from surrounding hills and forests into the deserted streets.
Now they roam the empty streets and overgrown garden's of Japan's deserted seaside town of Namie, foraging for food
However, the people of Namie are scheduled to return to the town at the end of the month, which means the bloody-toothed interlopers have to be cleared.
"It is not really clear now which is the master of the town, people or wild boars," said Tamotsu Baba, mayor of the town.
Wild boar meat is a delicacy in northern Japan, but animals slaughtered since the disaster are too contaminated to eat. According to tests conducted by the Japanese government, some of the boars have shown levels of radioactive element caesium-137 that are 300 times higher than safety standards.
Authorities in the town of Tomioka say they’ve killed 800 so far, but officials there say that’s not enough, according to Japanese media. The latest statistics show that in the three years since 2011, the number of boars killed in hunts has grown to 13,000 from 3,000.
But at town meetings earlier this year to prepare for the homecoming, residents had voiced worries about the wild boars.
[...]
MORE pictures at Daily Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/first-photos-radioactive-wild-boars-9996080