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.
Good find. Gotta love that accent and the Gallic disdain!
Re. the area around Chernobyl not being habitable for 25 years – it’ll be a while longer before the locals can move back in:
* How long before people can settle down and grow crops at the Chernobyl power plant site? Director of the plant, Ihor Gramotkin: **”At least 20,000 years.”** http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20110315/twl-uk-nuclearchernobyl-bd5ae06.html
And, despite the sneering and jeering from the nuke fan club, it does look like Fukushima is already worse than Chernobyl by some measures:
* Fukushima radioactive fallout nears Chernobyl levels. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20285-fukushima-radioactive-fallout-nears-chernobyl-levels.html
* Fukushima: 1760 metric tons of fresh and used nuclear fuel on site; Chernobyl: 180 tons. http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/how-much-fuel-is-at-risk-at-fukushima.html?rss=1