JOURNEY TO THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH

JOURNEY TO THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH

Country/ies
Switzerland
Production
Hercli Bundi
Editor
Length
100
Original Language
Original language
Status
Completed
Completed in
2013
Eurodoc Participant
Eurodoc Producer
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Year participation
2010
Distribution

Over 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site at nuclear power complexes and at intermediate storage sites all over the world. More than 10,000 additional tons join them every year. It is the most dangerous waste man has ever produced. Waste that requires storage in a safe final repository for hundreds of thousands of years. Out of reach of humanity and other living creatures. The question is, where? Together with Swiss-British nuclear physicist Charles McCombie, who has been searching for a safe final storage site for highly radioactive nuclear waste for thirty-five years, director Edgar Hagen investigates the limitations and contradictions involved in this project of global significance. Supporters and opponents of nuclear energy struggle for solutions whilst dogmatic worldviews are assailed by doubt.

Festivals & Awards
2014 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Greece)
2014 CPH:DOX (Denmark)
Production & financial support