Into Eternity: A Film for the Future
Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

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Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

DocAlliance Films
DocAlliance Films

This hiding place should never be disturbed.

7.2(84 votes)
2010
1h 15m
Documentary
energyenvironmentnuclear storage

Overview

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

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