Into Eternity: A Film for the Future (2010)

Directors:

Micheal Madsen

Writers:

Actors:

Berit Lundqvist, Mikael Jensen, Esko Roukola, Wendla Paile, Micheal Madsen, Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm

Synopsis:

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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Into Eternity: A Film for the Future (2010)

This is a fascinating documentary about the development of a nuclear waste storage facility that must last 100,000 years. How do you keep future (potentially non-technological) human societies from intruding? Super interesting stuff.
March 23, 2013