"Into Eternity," a 2009 feature documentary film by Danish director Michael Madsen, is about a nuclear waste depository 500 meters underground in Finland. The Japanese title is "Juman-nen go no Anzen" (Safety 100,000 years later). The camera goes into the deepest reaches of the facility, and the director interviews people involved in its construction.
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