of the far in a race against time. they are peers and rivals with one daring goals to help smart nature, the more likes watching it on youtube, dw documentary, the here this off the 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. and toxic dust and you dissolves is blowing from the ruins of tuck. he's recent tests quite

the want to celebrated miracle material, especially doses 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 that jen had move in to 150000 people worldwide die every year following contact reduced. 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 and meet the rebels. another danger is emerging, asbestos are excuse says investigation reveals the extent of the best of

contamination and has high dw reports as 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, either. 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 the bible 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 taking

boom. in the aftermath of the us quake mold and 100000 buildings collapsed. many contained as best of materials. and now that parts 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 causing me a quick region collect and transport task contaminated with us. best us. the crew wash the comp before taking a sample. audio any stats and get the entech 200 kilometers away from heads. i where the local apple was damaged in the us. great. 7 months after the disaster, the city still resembles a will zone. the people have had tie, try that best to live in normal life, but they're worried about the us. nothing did it come directly behind us as

a rumble. science said hills, our lungs while we're training our lungs had begun to swell. 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 tents where they live and then we also enter the area where demolition waste is stored. and there we took various samples for as best as an hour so, so you can see some of that of it's just like the residents, the work is don't use any protection from the dust. asbestos controls mesothelioma long and plural cancer or the decades exposure to constant task can also need to acute to illnesses. over the 50, the and my brother got sick from the death of them is that is something the 1st we

took him to the hospital now and they gave him bloody, i'm almost done. i'm much size free. fits into the engine and now he's 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 sorrel or 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 it, 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 bible cement and insulation

. materials known to contain asbestos that 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. activity icon, a lawyer from the heads i lawyers association has been campaigning since the us quick happened to say for management of rubble waste that protects public health. the 2 felt ill from the task so slomo cut them 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. it's got a brussel. yes shovel,

a breeding area for longer head turtle is close by boot and all i'm not sure. so is the beach is and also a bird sanctuary, which in these stronger but assuming they all question using this place as a rubble dumping area is high regardless of what a 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 being harvested, local produce is transpose it full of attack a release because only they never covered trucks that carry rubble with tarp lens faithful. the even that would have helped to prevent dangerous and hazardous substances like as best. so what is it from contaminating surrounding us or not? and help protect public health, full justice hemmed up the phone call, recording the local say that the government has prioritized reconstruction efforts of the public health of to 2 days of reporting on the ground with that can get in

tip the teen takes another dust sample from the top of the car, the next day the board tree results show that cause can carry asbestos task hundreds of kilometers. the detailed 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. 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 they really change?

but in order to determine how many people are affected in the region, or we need objective health monitoring studies, official statements claiming that people are not affected or just covering up the problem. now he says it's spiteful that the all star sees, act fast within the board and then the bush, then there's measures need to be taken today. bloomfield, i think that would help. could you send it to that towards the dust and smoke need to be closely monitored. and eliminated to, to then call to the get it so you can go to get it because musket, ultimately the masks should be distributed to people and workers in the region and look almost. and they should be encouraged to use them thinking how many walk the little tools that need to move is equal to the areas that are most affected by dust should be identified. and the residents relocated for around the world. the

especially those removal process is costly and slow that the current situation in turkey shows that in regions at risk of us quakes. it's a matter of urgency because otherwise, when disaster strikes, the consequences the deputy, the so we've arrived the minus 437 meters on the ground. we're inside the only final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the world. there's going to be basically an all day in europe 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 one central when i 1st had 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 healthy 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 pallet on. cell is quite straightforward, doesn't that. but it's actually really remarkable that this happened because the final disposal facility of 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 age is,

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, of the countries with nuclear power plants have also been looking for their own permanent storage sites. but nobody has even started construction anywhere else. when they your pro anti nuclear energy, this problem needs a solution fast because the waste is piling up and sometimes an adequate 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. yeah, definitely feels like a cave all around us is christa 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 rock, it's almost 2000000000 years. it's a rather on fractured rather dry. you know, we don't have a lot of fraud. what a moments in here i'm to your son is the head geologist at the company responsible for the facility. the whole struck needs to be on worth a, in a sense that there is no economic all 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 waste. 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 years. 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 ways to 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 materials. the best solution for handling it safely is burying 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 sent to meet the sick and around 5 meet the high corporate canisters. they have been transported on the ground with a 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 to the corporate 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. then 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 position is that the uncertainty isn't so high that it 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 defend lindsey, 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, the fin finished people there as being a kind of a mutual consensus that we need to take care of the waste not to leave them to the future. generations. 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 voice had 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 the 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 on the in the

community is concerned about the air dust, ground stability rose in a lot of ways. so we're out 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 who 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. and you know that 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 to 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 lead 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. dusted, warrens as to be careful and to jump from one patch of grass to the next areas of deep mud live between them. the shore is 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 release the decatur organic matter maybe not to the arctic region as 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 a bit meters and one since june end of june, 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 bank 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 smash because of the debris that's being smashed up against the ground. and splashing up to my house, it'll, it'll an a berg 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, in line 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 way, lens team and they spend hours strolling around to it with their ground penetrating radar. it's part of their efforts to help the integrates better adjust to climate change. their radar measures the thickness of the permafrost, underneath the roads to go 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 lynn poke. yeah, he's 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 universities. 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 and so that these could continue on. and then i could say, 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 down 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 less videos to document erosion. this was the layer of massive ice down here. so hey, i got 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 i think 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 inwards have taught dustin whalen and his colleagues about resilience something that is naturally part of their culture. the western scientists are

learning to follow suit the the

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