''Journey to the Safest Place on Earth'' is a 2013 documentary film written and directed by
Edgar Hagen. It discusses the huge quantity of
radioactive waste
Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons r ...
and spent
fuel rod
Nuclear fuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines. Heat is created when nuclear fuel undergoes nuclear fission.
Most nuclear fuels contain heavy fissile actinide elements that are capable of undergoing ...
s being stored at various locations on the planet.
Charles McCombie is a Swiss-based nuclear physicist with 35 years of experience in this field, and he accompanies Hagen on a worldwide search for the best location. One disposal site in Texas is adjacent to a location where oil drilling is in progress. A
proposed disposal site in Nevada is adjacent to the young volcano
Yucca Mountain
Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately northwest of Las Vegas. Located in the Great Basin, Yucca Mountain is east of the Amargosa Desert, south of the Nevada Test and Training Range and in the ...
.
See also
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High-level radioactive waste management
High-level radioactive waste management concerns how radioactive materials created during production of nuclear power and nuclear weapons are dealt with. Radioactive waste contains a mixture of short-lived and long-lived nuclides, as well as non ...
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List of films about nuclear issues
This is a list of films about nuclear issues:
Documentary films
* ''Ashes to Honey''
* '' The Atom Strikes!''
* ''The Atomic Cafe''
* '' Atomic Ed and the Black Hole''
* '' Atomic Power''
* '' The Bomb (2015)''
* '' Chernobyl Heart''
* ''Command ...
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Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is a proposed deep geological repository storage facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radio ...
References
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2013 films
2013 in the environment
Documentary films about nuclear technology
Swiss documentary films
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