This Is What It’s Like to Tour Inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone blog.gaijinpot.com

By Annelise GiseburtOn the afternoon of March 11, 2011, the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake knocked out the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station’s external power supply.
By late April the evacuation zone began to take on its current oblong shape.
Although some areas of the original evacuation zone have reopened, around 43,000 citizens still live as evacuees due to the triple disaster.
Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters even had to put up English signs to prevent foreigners from poking around inside the evacuation zone.
However, readings varied as we passed through the red zone, even along the already decontaminated Route 6—one of the red zone’s only open roads.