This jaw-dropping documentary tackles a subject almost beyond comprehension. 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 dug 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. This is nothing less than post-human architecture we are talking about. Why isn’t every government, every philosopher, every theologian, everywhere in the world discussing Onkalo and its implications?
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I wrote a poem about Onkalo after watching the film in the cinema recently. http://poet-in-residence.blogspot.com/2011/05/very-big-hole.html
In fact I have several Fukushima related poems on my blog. I am inspired by people like Gunderson, Caldicott and Busby.
keep up the great work, I enjoyed reading your poems…thank you!