why did they help us solve the enlightenment says, progresses in our hands, and that means so is request. it's up to us how significant of the beginning of the done and see the series of the great philosophers to our present and future. our series project in the item in some starts october 5th, on dw, the here. this often when i was a kid, things were different. well, now that the users say less unless things are different. why people in canada is up to region and literally losing the ground beneath se, se the safe steps we find out west finland is planning to bury its nuclear waste. the and toxic dust, the new dissolved,

is blowing from the ruins of tuck. he's recent test quake the i want to celebrated miracle material, especially dose is study able to withstand heats, and corrosion cheap and easy to use. it was widely used in the construction of homes, ships and industrial sites. but especially those is also costs. and the agenda move in to 150000 people worldwide, di every year following contract with dates. and despite being banned in many countries, us best offices still found everywhere was fatal consequences. a huge cloud of dust, blankets, the city of heads, high in southern techie, much of the city was devastated by an of quake in february. now the need troubles

and now the danger is emerging. asbestos, our exclusive investigation reveals the extent of the best of contamination and has high dw reporters from the turkish and environment departments invited an expert team from the countries chamber of environmental engineers to the region. here they collected 45 death samples at different locations. the results point to a disaster that could affect millions of people who the, anyone who's been in how tie is at risk of being exposed to asbestos eating. gosh, gosh, tuck, you shall store a t save the amount of asbestos in the region is below dangerous levels. but according to the world health organization, a single aspect of fiber, when inhaled, can lead to lung cancer. techie and around 70 other countries has banned the sale of especially those products. but its legacy is still around us. because existing asbestos materials used in buildings and elsewhere before the bands are like it

taking boom. in the off the mass of the us quake mold and $100000.00 buildings collapsed. many contained asbestos materials and now that part of the dust crew fare at is an ex but from tech he's chamber of environmental engineers. he'll be helping the dw report is on the ground to collect dust samples from high tie. the 1st one will be a control sample from the cruise call. the idea is to see if cause the meat of quick region collect and transport tasks contaminated with us. best us. the crew wash the comp before taking a sample. odd, you any stats and get the entech 200 kilometers away from heads. i was the local apple was damaged in the us. great. 7 months after the disaster, the city still resembles a will zone. the people have has high try that best to live in normal life,

but they're worried about the dust. nothing did it come directly behind us as a rebel side said, hills are loans while we're training. our lungs have begun to swell invisible. it's having a bad effect on our physical and mental health. what are the people here are living very close to russell. we took dust samples from the top of the 10s where they live. it'd be cool because of that. and then we also enter the area where demolition waste is stored. and there we took various samples for as best as analysis. so you can see some of that of it's just like the residents, the workers don't use any protection from the dust. asbestos controls mesothelioma long and plural cancer or the decades exposure as a constant task and also need to acute to illnesses over the 50 january. and we'll

have enough of that. my brother got sick from the death of them is that is something. 2 we took him to the hospital and they gave him blogs, a number of them. well yeah. and then yeah, and much value for you to, to into uh, yeah, and another one. this is making us, it shows it well. the ones you could afford to leave the city have less, but many have nowhere else to go. according to public health experts, thousands of children in the region on our risk of developing plural lung cancer. as adults 50 columbus is away on the coast of high tide. we talked to another low coat with acute symptoms. the whole family has it and my wife has at the worst of it. of the rebel right next to his shop contains all sorts of waste from electronic goods to toxic heavy metals,

as well as 5 of cement and insulation. materials known to contain asbestos. almost no one came to examine us or to offer counseling, even though we live in the center of the city. we're not in villages or in the mountains. he's not the only one living next to piles of rubble across the region. demolition work is underway in the streets. at chavez, icon a lawyer from the heads i lawyers association has been campaigning since the us quick happened for safe and management of rubble waste that protects public health . the 2 felt ill from the task setup slomo column adams over there is a come now used for agricultural irrigation to lisa. there's a high school and police headquarters nearby young for general. then there's another school content and the container city is about 50 meters away from here.

yeah, the so yes, i'm a breeding area for longer head turtle is as low as why the trucks. yeah. so is the b j and also a bird sanctuary, which in the stronger what are some of the question using this place as a rubble dumping area is high ran the colonial central. yep. the crew take samples from the dump site and also from the leaves of the vegetation, nearby olives, and possibly a grown here. and once it's been harvested, local produce is transpose it full of attack a couple, the 3 will, this is only they never covered trucks that carry rubble with tarp lens will be up with a fold out. even that would have helped to prevent dangerous and hazardous substances like as best, so speak. what is it from contaminating surrounding us or not? and help protect public health, full justice hemmed up the phone calls the local say that the government has

prioritized reconstruction efforts of the public health of to 2 days of reporting on the ground with back and get the end tip. the team takes another dust sample from the top of the call. the next day the board tree results show that calls can carry s festal stuff, hundreds of kilometers. the details lab reports prove the residential areas, soil leaves and fruits and many neighborhoods. all contaminated with asbestos using it on the lab results we received or alarming and we detected as best those and 16 out of 45 samples. the statements made by the authorities and how to i and the ministry of environment don't reflect the realities on the ground. to get to you also through the public health expert as can gen cuz that, that also examine the report. the key in the, on the notes in the coming years, we may see tens of thousands of very young people die of mesothelioma related

conditions will be really good in order to determine how many people are affected in the region. 460, we need objective health monitoring studies, official statements claiming that people are not affected, or just covering up the problem that focused on you. now he says it's spiteful that the all stars he's act fast. ordering the board and then the bush, then there's measures need to be taken today. bloomfield, i think that would help the cookies. then it seems that towards the dust and smoke need to be closely monitored and eliminated tools to then call to them to get it. so you can go to get it to help them look up. musket ultimate masks should be distributed to people and workers in the region and look almost. and they should be encouraged to use them to get them into walk. eh, a little pause then it's the musical of the areas that are most affected by dust,

should be identified on them, and the residents relocated for around the world. the especially those removal process is costly and slow. but the current situation in turkey shows that in regions at risk of the us quakes, it's a matter of urgency because otherwise, when disaster strikes, the consequences the deputy, the so we've arrived at minus 437 meters on the ground. we're inside the only final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the world. there's gonna be basically no danger of within the next hundreds of thousands of years. this tunnel is deep on the ground is supposed to be the game changer for nuclear waste. there a quarter of a 1000000 tons of nuclear waste, just lying around across the globe. in some cases, leasing,

talk sense into the environment. and nobody really knows exactly what to do with it yet, except for the fence. so how did they do it? and does this mean we've sold the nuclear waste problem once and for when i 1st heard that the, since we're building a nuclear waste deposit site, i thought it was going to be in the middle of nowhere like in the optic circle. so no, it's actually just a 3 hour call right away from housing in a municipality of almost 10000 people cold air. which also happens to be home to europe's largest nuclear reactive municipality actually been to the site and was selected from full possible locations. construction started in 2004. right next to the power plant. cells. quite straightforward, doesn't that. but it's actually really remarkable that this happened because of final disposal facility is a spent nuclear fuel, has keep highly radioactive waste from leaking into the environment for a couple of 100000 years. to put that into perspective,

a couple of ice ages will have come and gone and that's fine. that needs decades of discussions, planning and careful selection of sites and the feet of engineering. other countries with nuclear power plants have also been looking for their own permanent storage sites. but nobody has even started construction anywhere else without your pro or anti nuclear energy. this problem needs a solution fast because the waste is piling up and sometimes inadequate interim storage sides worldwide, but not in finland. also decades of research and construction, the site called and carlo case, whole and finish, is about to start operating in the next few years. the project is financed by the finish nuclear power companies, which are probably owned by the finish date. we're ready to go. the trip down takes almost

a quarter of an hour. so we've arrived at minus 437 meters on the ground. definitely feels like a cave all around us is krista line bedrock, a mixture of granite and the rock calls making a tight. and that's the 1st key to why this place was chosen to store the nuclear waste the age of the wrong guess. almost 2000000000 years. it's a rather on fractured rather dry. you know, we don't have a lot of front water moments in here. i'm to your son is the head geologist at the company responsible for the facility. the whole truck needs to be on worth a, in a sense that there is no economical fee, says that future generations or likes to be out from their own. but finding the

right the rock is just the 1st step because nuclear waste is unlike any other way. they have 3 main types, low level intermediates and high level waste. low level waste is usually stuff that came into contact with radioactive material, like protective equipment filters or medical waste. intermediate waste is equipment used in nuclear plants or weapons production like pipes, so insulating material. this can stay radioactive for a couple of 100. yes. they are contaminated and disposed of and low level waste sites on the oval ground up to 99 percent of all nuclear waste falls into that category. the one percent of high level radioactive waste is the most problematic one that consists mostly of spent nuclear fuel rods, but it also includes waste from nuclear weapons production. spend prod, still contain lots of energy enough to him. it heat and remain radioactive up to a 1000000 years, and that waste is sitting and cooling pools,

or in dry caustics around the world. a total of over a quarter of a 1000000 metric tons says the international atomic energy agency. that's as heavy as 26 eiffel towers. and some of it is leaking radioactive material. the best solution for handling it safely is bearing a deep on the ground and leaving it to the k for a couple of 100000 years until it isn't dangerous anymore. to prevent the radioactivity from the rods from leaking in the meantime, it needs to be in case properly are in finland. the spent fuel rods are sealed into 5 cent. you meet the 2nd and around 5, meet the high corporate canisters. they have been transported on the ground with hoist pulls of drilled into the bedrock along very long tunnels. the canisters are then put into the holes as in this demo drilling. wow, that's so deep. you can hear my echo. then the whole is filled up with band tonight

play, which is also used as calculator. i can absorb groundwater that might sleep in and corrode and accomplish kind of stuff. ready and finally, the tunnel is back filled with the same material and sealed with a 6 me to 6 concrete slab. as you can see here in this demonstration tunnel, those capsules or canisters are the most controversial part of the whole nuclear waste repository. the problem is, what happens if the band tonight laya, has defects or is damaged and ground water containing sulfide and hydrogen does reach the canister. research as have shown in multiple studies that copper could corrode, and the canisters could fail much faster. and the company in charge has calculated possibly already in a time span of decades. research on this is ongoing and the topic is highly debated in the scientific community. but the stands of the finished nuclear safety o,

sorry t and pacifica is that the uncertainty isn't so high that they would pose a significant risk. and they stress that the canister is just one protective layer of many condo is meant to house all the future ways to finland's existing nuclear power plants. nor is it clear how future generations will be able to tell that radioactive waste is located here. or if it should be kept unlocked, but that's a question for another video. but even so, finland is way ahead of most nations. maybe because of a unique mentality. one, a role in there might be with bab, correct. my big mindset of fin finished people there as being a kind of a mutual consensus that we need to take care of the ways not to leave them to the future. it's in that race sense. there has been very little pulsation from the society. the

summer 2023 was the hotel since records began it was also a summer of fire and was have vast areas of land worldwide were destroyed by wild fires and floods. meanwhile, in the canadian town of to play at 2 o'clock on the edge of the out, take a stone, c catastrophe is unfolding those looking to travel to the end of the world face a bumpy road. it's a 170 lonely kilometers along with dempster highway to reach to to ya. this is where the arctic ocean begins. it's steven and pokey our 1st big project. she can hardly believe that she landed the spot on dustin wayland team. she's the only one

in the canadian british group without an academic background. and the only interest that we do is concerned about the air does ground stability rows in waterways. so we're always here to collect that data with the help of the researchers and the scientists everyone into as the villages refer to locally knows dustin wayne, the canadian permafrost research or has been coming here for almost 20 years. unlike his colleagues to fly in and out to collect data, he recognized early on the importance of getting in business. people like diva lynn on board, the people that, that lived in the community like the villains, dad, you know, the, the knowledge that they have about the land is far, far above any of the knowledge that i have learned in my academic textbooks about processes or climate change or coastal erosion. a training session out on the arctic ocean temperatures stable. the scientists,

they're teaching diva learned how to collect data in a way that's useful for research. yeah, both sides stand to gain. the community has opportunities and there's also other opportunities for western scientists to want to learn and who are open book culture and stuff. so it's really good. well, that a good team going dustin wayland takes us to, to kind of it's, it's just off shore and serve to protect the harbor from storms. and that's vital is both lee from here to bring supplies to all the remote regions round about. but the island is shrinking by 2 meters every year. this summer, the erosion was even worse than usual. dustin warrens as to be careful and to jump from one patch of grass to the next areas of deep mud live between them. the shores melting as thick layers of ice are exposed to the sun right here. this, you know, this, this area here with a premier, for us,

has thought it exposes, exposes this mass of ice. and you can actually see the pure ice underneath. and as soon as that is exposed to the air, it, it just melts, but there's lots of parts of climate change we're not seeing. and 11 big one is the release of greenhouse gases are missing in into the atmosphere. so falling permafrost can, can be released, the decatur organic matter maybe not, of the arctic region is heating up faster than the rest of the planet. and the consequences are readily apparent. this little island, that's one kilometer long, is steadily shrinking. this is eroded back one and if it meters, not since june and you beginning of july we hear this often when i was a kid things were different. well, now that the youth are saying last summer, things were different. or, you know, last summer i could walk right across this bag. and now it's,

it's totally gone and we see this huge stuff failure here. temperatures of almost 30 degrees celsius in the arctic are no longer unheard of locals can't remember a summer that was as hot and long as this year's residents, including many anyways, families that have lived here for generations are asking how long this can continue . no other company already lost one significant battle with climate change out of the waves crashed against her house for so long that it was no longer safe for her to live in it. the entrance was just a little further off to the side where you are there. and now this is where my house was. during the last year, i was just worried that my windows were getting get smashed because of the debris that's being smashed up against the ground. and splashing up to my house, settled, it'll, and the bird can't. her cousin tried to reinforce the bank next to his property,

but already his barn is no longer safe. took to you, i took, was recently granted millions by the government to preserve the coastline. but all such solutions are only short term companies. neighbors are living on borrowed time . eventually they're going to have to be moved in to learn to. it's hard to hard to fathom how and how many people are gonna see this place because of climate change. james martin and craig warren are also part of dustin white lens team and they spend hours strolling around to with their ground penetrating radar. it's part of their efforts to help the anyway, it's better adjust to climate change. their radar measures the thickness of the permafrost, underneath the roads to dope, so that this would save the community in the long term. but there is a lot of talk about moving the community to

a new site. and what we're learning about how infrastructure effects the depths, dependent for us, could mean that construction of new facilities as a new site would be more robust grey data. the team gap is around the kitchen table for a meeting. this was coming up diva lind. polk yard has been part of the research team for a long time. now. yeah, she even presents her work in international conferences from in winter when the researchers are back at their university's. she monitors the various measuring stations and collect samples here. it's good and i want it pushes me to want to further further my education so that these could continue on and then i could like possibly. so the community that you can do these things here when you get to know, you know, who you working with as humans you, you understand what they need to go with it,

what we need to get out for it. you know the outcomes to the community about comes to the science. now. before saying good bye, dustin wayland takes us to see a peninsula that's a special interest to researchers. huge walls suffice shine in the evening sun. up to 40 meters of disappear every year. of wayland, steam is using time lapse videos to document erosion. this was the layer of massive ice down here. so yeah, is a bit of mess advice, retracing back up to feel that we're doing something positive to, to, to gather data, to what with the locals here and then from then and, and, and co produced solutions is, is everything to us. and for me as an academic, and as a scientist, that's really what we strive for. the impact of climate change is actually audible . here. the in words have taught dustin wayland and his colleagues about resilience

something that is naturally part of their culture. and the western scientists are learning to follow suit the the

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