Down There - Our Nuclear Heritage in a Triangle of Water

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Down There - Our Nuclear Heritage in a Triangle of Water (Là suta. La nostra eredità nucleare in un triangolo d'acqua)

Down There - Our Nuclear Heritage in a Triangle of Water (Là suta. La nostra eredità nucleare in un triangolo d'acqua)

original title:

Là suta. La nostra eredità nucleare in un triangolo d'acqua

cast:

Gian Piero Godio, Rossana Vallino, Umberto Lorini, Enrico Adduci, Giovanni Vallino

screenplay:

cinematography:

production:

Associazione Almaterra, BabyDocFilm, Zenit Arti Audiovisive, with the support of Piemonte Doc Film Fund, Fondazione CRT, CGIL Vercelli-Valsesia, CSC Archivio Nazionale Cinema d'Impresa Ivrea

country:

Italy

year:

2014

film run:

68'

format:

HD - colour

status:

Ready (30/05/2014)

festivals & awards:

  • Cinemambiente 2014: Concorso ItaliaDoc
  • Premio Libero Bizzarri 2014: finalista

About 40 kilometers from Turin lies Saluggia, a small rural town which in the late 1950s became home to a nuclear research center, an experimental atomic reactor, and a reprocessing plant where methods were developed for recovering uranium and plutonium from spent nuclear fuels. Disastrous floods in 2000 made the site was no longer safe, yet a new repository for nuclear waste is nearing completion. Drawing on archive material, testimony from activists, local administrators, scientists and workers, the film reveals the risks of storing radioactive waste in an unsuitable area and the threats to the local water supply.