This is an English-language release.
Every day, throughout the world, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes; constant surveillance, security management and maintenance is required.
In Finland, the world's first permanent nuclear repository - Onkalo - is being hewn out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels that must last at least 100,000 years. Onkalo is a Finnish word for hiding place. It is situated at Olkiluoto in Finland, approximately 300 km northwest of Helsinki, and it is the world's first attempt at a permanent repository. Work on the concept behind the facility commenced in 1970s and the repository is expected to be backfilled and decommissioned in the 2100s – more than a century from now. No person working on the facility today will live to see it completed.
Once the waste has been deposited, and the repository is full, the facility is to be sealed off and never opened again. But how to ensure that? And how is it possible to warn future generations of the deadly waste left behind? How to prevent them from thinking they have found hidden treasure, burial grounds? Which languages and signs will they understand? And if they understand, will they respect the instructions?
While gigantic monster machines dig deeper and deeper into the dark, experts above ground strive to find solutions to this crucially important radioactive waste issue to secure mankind and all species on planet Earth, now and in the near and very distant future.
Captivating, wondrous and extremely frightening, this feature documentary takes viewers on a journey never seen before into the underworld - and into the future.
Film: Into Eternity
Release date: 12th November 2010
Certificate: E
Running time: 75 mins
Director: Michael Madsen
Starring: Timo Äikäs, Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm, Mikael Jensen, Berit Lundqvist, Wendla Paile
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Dogwoof
Format: DVD
Country: Denmark/Finland/Sweden/Italy
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