The Resource Into eternity
Into eternity
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The item Into eternity represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Into eternity represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- The world's nuclear power plants have generated an estimated 300,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste that must be safely stored for 100,000 years or more. Every year, they generate another 12,000 metric tons of high-level waste. Into Eternity is the first feature documentary to explore the mind-boggling scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage poses. Structured as a message to future generations, the film focuses on the Onkalo waste repository now under construction in Finland, one of the first underground storage facilities. Onkalo is a gigantic network of tunnels being carved out of bedrock that will start receiving Finland's nuclear waste in 2020. Once the repository is full, in about 100 years, it will be closed and hopefully remain sealed for at least 100,000 years. Into Eternity takes viewers deep into the Onkalo facility as it is being constructed and asks Onkalo representatives, scientists, theologians and others to address fundamental but challenging questions. How can our civilization know what the world will be like in 100,000 years? The first modern homo sapiens appeared about that long ago and no human structure has survived more than 5000 years. How can we anticipate climate and geologic changes that far in the future? What will life on our planet be like then? How do we warn distant generations of the deadly waste our civilization left behind? What languages or signs will they understand? How do we prevent them from thinking they have located the pyramids of our time or some other treasures? With its stark, stylistic approach, Into Eternity not only raises questions about the possibility of long-term nuclear waste storage, but also invites reflection on the limits of science and human knowledge, along with our responsibility to future generations
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 180 min.)
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Label
- Into eternity
- Title
- Into eternity
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The world's nuclear power plants have generated an estimated 300,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste that must be safely stored for 100,000 years or more. Every year, they generate another 12,000 metric tons of high-level waste. Into Eternity is the first feature documentary to explore the mind-boggling scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage poses. Structured as a message to future generations, the film focuses on the Onkalo waste repository now under construction in Finland, one of the first underground storage facilities. Onkalo is a gigantic network of tunnels being carved out of bedrock that will start receiving Finland's nuclear waste in 2020. Once the repository is full, in about 100 years, it will be closed and hopefully remain sealed for at least 100,000 years. Into Eternity takes viewers deep into the Onkalo facility as it is being constructed and asks Onkalo representatives, scientists, theologians and others to address fundamental but challenging questions. How can our civilization know what the world will be like in 100,000 years? The first modern homo sapiens appeared about that long ago and no human structure has survived more than 5000 years. How can we anticipate climate and geologic changes that far in the future? What will life on our planet be like then? How do we warn distant generations of the deadly waste our civilization left behind? What languages or signs will they understand? How do we prevent them from thinking they have located the pyramids of our time or some other treasures? With its stark, stylistic approach, Into Eternity not only raises questions about the possibility of long-term nuclear waste storage, but also invites reflection on the limits of science and human knowledge, along with our responsibility to future generations
- Cataloging source
- UtOrKAN
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Date time place
- Originally produced by The Video Project in 2010
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Madsen, Michael
- Lense-Møller, Lise
- Runtime
- 179
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Radioactive waste repositories
- Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
- Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
- Target audience
- adult
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- Into eternity
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
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- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 180 min.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Available to cardholders of participating libraries only
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
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- video
- computer
- Media MARC source
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- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- v
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher number
- 1171105
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- System control number
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- (CaSfKAN)kan1171105
- (OCoLC)956491065
- 1135287
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
- Label
- Into eternity
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 180 min.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Available to cardholders of participating libraries only
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
-
- video
- computer
- Media MARC source
-
- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher number
- 1171105
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System control number
-
- (CaSfKAN)kan1171105
- (OCoLC)956491065
- 1135287
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
Library Locations
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Evanston Public Library Chicago AveBorrow it900 Chicago Ave., Suite 102, Evanston, IL, 60202, US42.034188 -87.679606
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