Into Eternity - FULL DOCUMENTARY - V.O ENG + ESP SUB.

ENG: Into Eternity is a feature documentary film directed by Danish director Michael Madsen, released in 2010. It follows the construction of the Onkalo waste repository at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant on the island of Olkiluoto, Finland. Director Michael Madsen questions Onkalo's intended eternal existence, addressing an audience in the remote future.

Into Eternity raises the question of the authorities' responsibility of ensuring compliance with relatively new safety criteria legislation and the principles at the core of nuclear waste management.

When shown on the British More digital television channel on 26 April 2011, the name Nuclear Eternity was used. It received a special mention in the Sheffield Green Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2010.

ESP: Into Eternity es una película documental dirigida por el director danés Michael Madsen, estrenada en 2010. Sigue a la construcción del depósito de residuos de Onkalo en la central nuclear de Olkiluoto en la isla de Olkiluoto, Finlandia. El director Michael Madsen cuestiona la pretendida existencia eterna de Onkalo, dirigiéndose a una audiencia en el futuro remoto.

Into Eternity plantea la cuestión de la responsabilidad de las autoridades de garantizar el cumplimiento de una legislación relativamente nueva sobre criterios de seguridad y los principios básicos de la gestión de residuos nucleares.

Cuando se mostró en el canal de televisión digital británico More el 26 de abril de 2011, se usó el nombre Nuclear Eternity. Recibió una mención especial en el Sheffield Green Award en Sheffield Doc / Fest en 2010.

[wratatatata]

I will never understand how this documentary is not as famous and as importantly known as I should be

[somethingsomething]

I love this documentary, I watch it every few years. It should be way more popular. It explains the problem well and in a very watchable and memorable way.

[lukacvetkovic]

A bunch of sweet Scandinavian people thinking how far in the future they can produce new forms of care for humanity. 10/10

[raffishizing]

Love this. I'm not anti-nuclear: I think this form of energy is a necessary alternative to fossil fuels until solar, wind, et al. can be fully scaled. Having watched it three times, I don't think this film is anti-nuclear either. But the questions it asks about nuclear waste are important and fascinating, and the quiet way in which it asks them is simply beautiful. One of my favorite documentaries of all time.

[rafaeldelatorre]

This is the third time I've seen this documentary. It's great, but terrifying. I agree; this documentary should be famous!

[mariamichelaki]

The scene where the one worker cleans the other's eye from dirt must be one of the sweetest things I have ever seen (at 51:00).

[champisthebunny]

After you finish watching this and try to digest what it has to tell you. Consider that this facility is meant to deal with a portion of a very small nuclear country's waste. Finland is a minor player in the nuclear scheme of things. Think of the magnitude of the problem facing countries like anything goes, who cares, uSa. Or Britain. France. Japan etc. NONE of them have built anything like Onkalo and likely never will. And these countries, to name just a few, have a waste problem that is immense compared to Finland here. The uS stores ALL its waste ON SITE. In the uS again, Bechtel designed 'dry casks' and storage tanks at Hanford are already disintegrating long before there due date. All due to negligence inferior design and shoddy workmanship. The work there is years behind schedule, costing a fortune, subject to endless accusations of corruption and incompetence, and is failing to deal with the leaking material. One

Hanford is a horror story true enough, but it is hardly unique. I am not hopeful for the future once we lose control over the 400+ nuclear power stations and the countless unmarked waste, military and research sites around the globe.

[twogenjis]

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[JanMalec]

The point that is often overlooked is that most of our waste will be toxic for a long time, the hevay metals will be toxic forever. The big difference between the nucelar fuel and other waste is that we actually take care of the fuel and do not release it in our environment. Renewable energy sources such as solar panels also create chemical waste, but that waste is released in the environment.

[nicmafia]

i get the feeling they realise that all these protocols are futile as one aspect of humanity will override all these measures. curiosity.

[harrietharlow]

This film has a rather dark foreboding feel to it. That, however, is perfectly appropriate to the subject. This dangerous waste must be buried away from people and made as inaccessible as possible.

[gunrider]

Very interesting and disturbing questions and answers.

[barbecueman]

The people interviewed had some amazing perspective on the future of humanity

[benjamind.gordon]

I have just been made aware of this in 2022, And I am sure the problem has reached a point that many countries would never dare tell the masses. No wonder they are trying to colonize Mars!

[CarrierSignals]

Such a classic. The Kraftwerk song completes it.

[Sumofabish]

30:16 I can’t help but think of the similarities between this warning and the warnings inscribed at the entrances to the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs cautioning death and curses to anyone who dared enter. Unfortunately those inscriptions only peaked our curiosity even further and we ignored them completely

[rolfhelder]

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. In 2022 (just some decades later), Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian soldiers should have known about the dangers of radioactive waste around Chernobyl. But they were not warned by their supervisors. They dug holes in the contaminated soil at the risk of their lives. They had to be warned by reactor plant personnel. Later in the same war, they even placed explosives on and in the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. I am under no illusion that we can keep nuclear waste safe for centuries. Let alone even longer.

[silverflute]

I think it's a little premature for people to assume that this project will ever be finished. That conditions are changing much faster than we can manage, and when we start seeing dramatic shifts Onkalo will still be open, under construction. It's ambitious, at any rate.

[terrygreuel]

At this point in time, humanity has constructed huge cities of concrete, glass and steel. After 100, 000 years it seems plausible that there will still be many artifacts that remain. Artifacts that will be far easier to uncover and examine, than those hidden in a hole dug thousands of feet below the surface of Finland. It's an unfortunate fact of life that nuclear waste exists. We are going to have to put it somewhere. Deep in the ground would seem to be the place with the least drawbacks. Good documentary, but it seems to deal a a lot with potential problems coming so far in the future that we could not possibly understand the realities of the time.

[therealuncleowen]

At least Finland is doing something to create permanent storage for nuclear waste. Frankly, it is insanity to go forward with nuclear energy when it creates this dangerous eternal waste, and we have no plan to dispose of most of it safely. Not surprising that a nation such as Finland is the first to step up and take responsibility for this mess.