It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel or perhaps a tabloid, but the situation is real: Wild boars contaminated with radioactive particles have occupied neighborhoods in the prefecture of Fukushima, Japan, making it even harder for former residents to return to their homes, The New York Times reports.
The 2011 meltdown of Fukushima’s nuclear power plant required around 300,000 people to evacuate their homes, according to NBC. As humans moved out, local wildlife moved in, oblivious to the invisible threat. Rats, dogs, foxes, and boars have claimed the ghost-town supermarkets and irradiated, overgrown farmland for their own.
Radiation has significantly dissipated over the last six years, and officials intend to lift evacuation orders on four towns later…
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