Sealing Reactors in Resin: Solution? Or just Plan 9 from Fukushima? April 2, 2011

I love this guy. “Alex”, a French ex-pat, living in northern Tokyo, has been providing man-on-the-street updates from Japan through YouTube.

He’s talking about the plan that’s being floated to spray the contaminated site with some kind of resin that will bind with radio-nuclides.

Given the quality of information we receive from TEPCO, and the placating reassurances of the tuned-out mainstream press, it’s a refreshing jolt of pure populist freakout. As CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported on Friday, fewer and fewer people are believing anything they hear from the Japanese government, press or corporate sources.

New video update below the fold:

Here he poo poos a number of paranoid internet rumors that have cropped up on his site and others.