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Well, Japanese officials have decided that more people who live around the nuclear plant need to get out. 

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Ever since reactors at the facility, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, were damaged in last month's tsunami, 

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there's been concern among residents... 

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concern that residents would be exposed to harmful levels of radiation. 

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For weeks, only those who live within a 20-kilometer radius, 

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shown here in red, were told to evacuate. 

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Now, people who live in the green area and beyond are being told they too may have to leave depending on the radiation levels. 

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Long-term exposure can increase the risk of cancer, 

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and some residents could be exposed not just for days, but for months. 

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Kyung Lah spoke with two journalists who managed to get inside the hot zone.

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No sounds of human life, just empty streets and homes. 

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Hospital beds, hastily discarded. 

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This is what a mass evacuation of a town inside a nuclear crisis looks like.

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It's [a] normal city, but there's nobody.

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A normal city, but no one's there.

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Yeah.

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"Everything stopped here on March 11 at 2:46 p.m.," he says.

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This is rare video of Futaba, shot two weeks after the tsunami, 

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captured by freelance journalist Naomi Toyoda and Shuji Ogawa, risking their lives entering the dangerous mandatory evacuation zone in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear plant. 

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People left so quickly in the wake of the disaster, this dog was left behind, chained, now starving. You can see its ribs. 

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Ogawa fed his lunch to the dog.

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But what Ogawa can't forget: this sign, 

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once a proud symbol of the town, that reads, 

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"Nuclear energy, our hometown's future."

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"It's ironic," he says. 

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"The nuclear power plant was supposed to open the door to the future. Instead, it closed that door."

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Everywhere they went, radiation levels easily exceeded the legal limit.

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I saw the Geiger counter, the meter. After that, I'm afraid. 

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Before that, I don't feel anything.

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And it's scary, because you can't feel anything. You can't see it.

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Across the evacuation zone, Toyoda photographed other empty towns, bodies that have yet to be found or buried. 

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Time, frozen like another nuclear disaster zone Toyoda had just returned from, 

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Chernobyl, on its 25th anniversary.

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You think Fukushima will be -- 

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In this moment. In this moment.

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-- will be like Chernobyl. Does it make you sad?

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Yeah. Please stop.

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Futaba evacuees asked us to show them this video. 

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They crowded around the laptop, eager for a glimpse of their abandoned homes.

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"That Geiger counter means we can't live in Futaba," they say. 

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"That sign was a lie," says Nobiyuki Iraki. 

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"For the last 40 years, TEPCO has only been saying nuclear power is safe, 

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that there's no chance of a meltdown. 

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We, the people of Futaba, feel we've all been betrayed."

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Do you think your main street or your downtown will be filled with people ever again?

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"No," they say.

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The evacuees left so quickly, they have no clothes, no job, and they live in a gym. 

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And as their town echoes loudly, no apparent future to return to.

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Kyung Lah, CNN, Tokyo.