Images reveal exclusion zone around Fukushima as abandoned, overgrown wilderness

IT MAY look like screenshots from the upcoming series of the Walking Dead, but these scenes are from the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

*ONE TIME WEB USE FOR NEWS.COM.AU* EXCLUSIVE. SPECIAL FEES APPLY . MANDATORY CREDIT: Arkadiusz Podniesinski/REX Shutterstock Mandatory Credit: Photo by Arkadiusz Podniesinski/REX Shutterstock (5224634a) An aerial photograph of abandoned vehicles. They can?t be removed until the owners give their consent. In the background the hills to which the schoolchildren escaped. Fukushima, Japan - Sep 2015 FULL COPY: http://www.rexfeatures.com/nanolink/r7ku MINIMUM USE FEE A photographer has taken stunning and revealing pictures of the exclusion zone from the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. Within a 20km radius the radioactive exclusion zone demonstrates the dangerous nature of nuclear energy. A network of abandoned towns and villages that once housed hundreds of thousands of people, the exclusion zone of the largest nuclear accident since Chernobyl is eerie and frightening.

IT MAY look like screenshots from the upcoming series of the Walking Dead, but these scenes are from a real-life horror story.

Photographer Arkadiusz Podniesinski, has recently captured stunning images of the exclusion zone from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The 20km exclusion zone around the plant demonstrates the damaging results of the nuclear disaster.

After warnings of dangerous levels of radioactivity, the area became the scene for a mass exodus of citizens with 160,000 people being forced to leave their homes.

Now, the once flourishing zone has become eerily similar to a post-apocalyptic landscape with vehicles becoming overgrown with vines and dilapidated buildings filled with cobwebs.

Since the disaster, only 40,000 people have been able to return home as many areas are still considered to be too dangerous to enter.

An aisle of a supermarket with products left on the floor. Since the disaster nature has been at work and cobwebs now hang between the shelves. Picture: Arkadiusz Podniesinski/REX Shutterstock

Since the disaster weeds have grown over items that were left behind. Picture: Arkadiusz Podniesinski/REX Shutterstock

A radiation reading of 6,7 at Fukushima, Japan. Picture: Arkadiusz Podniesinski/REX Shutterstock

Car have been left to rot among the weeds. Picture: Arkadiusz Podniesinski/REX Shutterstock

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